On my Desktop I use a custom icon for CDSG X6 (original version is similar to X5 and sometimes causes visual confusion).
But I have not figured out how to customize the icon on the Taskbar.
I really would appreciate any clues on how to proceed.
Thanks in advance.
Silvio Win said: On my Desktop I use a custom icon for CDSG X6 (original version is similar to X5 and sometimes causes visual confusion). But I have not figured out how to customize the icon on the Taskbar. I really would appreciate any clues on how to proceed. Thanks in advance.
From my brief testing, you can't change the icon of the default shortcut, BUT you can change the icon of a newly created short cut.
Navigate to the Draw Programs64 folder using Windows Explorer (assuming you're using the 64 bit version of X6), then right-click the CorelDRW.exe file and choose "Create shortcut." Place the new shortcut on your Desktop. Right-click that new item, choose Properties, and then from the Shortcut tab, you can make changes. You can then place the edited shortcut on your taskbar (or anywhere else you want it). Will this process accomplish what you want?
Hope it helps.
Workaround: I did fix it in taskbar.
That's not how I wish it, but temporarily while the program is running or minimized.
I tried changing the icons back when X5 came out and they were identical to the X4 icons. The icons for desktop are packaged within the CorelDRW.exe file. There are 16 different sizes for the Desktop and 15 for Windows Explorer. It's easy to extract them, change colors, etc., but I have not found a way to use the results (i.e. Put them back, so to speak, into their respective .exe files). There are tutorials on the web using various icon editor software, but none were not successful.
I believe they are made hack-proof for a reason?
Quick video of the icons that I extracted from the .exe file:
Patti