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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:10:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   the AOL icon I have on my desktop (yeah) is so badly designed!

   They set the icon to the CD-ROM path of the AOL installer, right? meaning it only shows the icon when you have the CD-ROM inserted, or when windows has it cached

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 18:15:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I copied the icon onto my hard drive and changed the path. now my windows 10 desktop has a proper AOL icon

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 10:56:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jamie Booth

     @jamie sadly windows 10 doesn't seem to cache the icons as long, so the icons disappear

   • Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 10:56:52 JST Jamie Booth

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     @foone

     I remember that being a pretty standard trick when the source was removable. You could extract the icon to an .ico and manually set it in the .lnk file. Good times. Used it a bunch for stuff I installed to Zip disks.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 11:19:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jamie Booth

     @jamie ahh, I see. I misunderstood

   • Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 11:19:34 JST Jamie Booth

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     @foone

     But that was the trick. You don't rely on the caching. You change the icon for the .lnk file and point it at something on non-removable storage. At least that's how we did it. To be fair, I haven't tested on anything newer than XP, but I would think the .lnk files would work the same way.