This guide describes how to create an icon in Microsoft Paint. All you need to do is set a canvas, draw your icon, and save the file in .ico format.

For some file types (such as PDF and other documents) doing this doesn't create a file icon, but a complete new copy of the document itself. For PDF files if you want the generic PDF icon and not ...

This is my dilemma:<P>I am creating an installation interface for an old DOS program, which is no problem, but at the end of it I want the interface to create a desktop shortcut with customised ...