How to change icon of a "Batch File"??

nucleusfermi

As subject states may I know how to alter the icon of a batch file? And will that way be applicable to similar kinds of files?

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bakuryu

You can convert your batch file to exe and then change it icons. Almost all batch to exe converters has this feature to set a custom exe icon also.

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Strider

Just like bakuryu suggested download Batch To Exe Converter 1.3.3 from here . It is a small, free and powerful tool.

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nucleusfermi

Thanks a lot friends, one more thing if one could suggest me, though I've come across several tutorials to make .exe files from "python" programmes, if you people have some tut in which beginner's considerations are taken care of then please post that here (sorry for staggering with section's propetry, one might initiate pertaining thread in appropriate section too), again thank you both "bakuryu & strider". But it'd be better if I might know how to perform this same task (altering icons) with .dll and similar kinds of files, means if we convert them (other than .bat files) to .exe, would they be still fine in working? Will they work as a library or so on? or some utilities are available for these all tasks too?

bakuryu

This is the easiest tutorial
Tutorial - py2exe.org

No, not all will work if you convert them to exe.

there are many shareware applications that allow you to chnage icons of dll,ocx, etc etc.

Icon Changer - Change icon
Exe Icon Changer - Change icon of exe, dll, folder, driver - Software & Downloads at itLocation.com

nucleusfermi

When I changed one batch file using "Batch To Exe Converter 1.3.3" and included several .reg files which were part of the process defined in batch file (which I converted), then not all but a few .reg files appeard in the same directory where that "converted batch file, means now .exe file" was. And the major aspect which bothered me a lot was the .reg files which appeard were without any attributes of "Hidden, Readonly" which I assigned them at the time of inclusion into the .exe(converted batch) file. Why this happened? Is there any solution availble for this? Is this shortcoming of the utility used or I'll've to instruct something more while creating or converting batch file?

nucleusfermi

Thanks for python tut, it's really the most helping of them all. I asked you about appearing of those .reg files which were included during conversion, should I build a new batch file instucting to remove them and include this new batch file into that converted .exe file? But there is one batch file included within that converted .exe file, then how would I define the order of there execution? I think the first path which I write at the time of conversion for inclusion of other files then they would follow that pattern, but on running I came to know it runs them all together, and files were not deleted.

bakuryu

if you want to hide/protect the reg files, then you need to generate the reg files from inside the batch file.

So you code something like this :

here the batch file itself generates the reg files and then deletes it after addition to the registry.

order of execution is always from top to down unless using goto statements inside batch files.

nucleusfermi

Amazing you've provided me a jewel, It will propel my task many times, I think if I might know about "goto" statement then as per my perception goes I'll not have to create other batch files in order to sustain the main process, I could easily accomodate that goto statement as per necessity. And the second thing bakuryu, I failed to understand properly the code you wrote. Because when I tried that, though there wasn't any error, but it didn't work. Bakuryu you see this, suppose I am writing a "ram.bat" file, in which I'm to render
a "shyam.reg" file, and the registry path affected is [RegPath] and the dataitem
is "DataItem" and the value is a string ve. like "Ganesh", now please can you write
that code substituting above elements? Whenever you get time
you write okay.

bakuryu

here I must say, if there's a path or some command line parameters then the string can actually be a bit more complicated.

The easiest method is to open the reg file in a text editor like notepad, and copy each line and add a echo command and the redirection to the generated batch file.

to use goto is simply like :