Notices by Jamie Booth (jamie@boothcomputing.social)

@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.

@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

I was thinking this. Just give it a DE25 port and then make the cables from that to the target connector. Then your microcontroller just needs to know how to map the signal correctly (which pins to use and protocol) for that particular connector type.

@foone
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