[Tutor] Changing Python icon - 2.6 and 3.2

[Bill Felton]

I haven't tried this on Windows 7 yet, but what I did on my Mac was to create shortcuts and rename those.  I generally launch from shortcuts, so this leaves the app names alone but gives me the information I need to launch what I intend.  You should be able to do something similar on Windows.

regards,
Bill

On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Patty wrote:

> Hello Folks - I have Python 2.6.6 on my Windows 7 system and installed Python 3.2.  Now I want to be able to differentiate between the versions and the icon for each version of Python is the same.  I figured I would change the the four application files in the C:\Python26 directory - python; python26; pythonw; pythonw26 - and give them new picture icons.  But when I select any of these files and choose 'properties', there is no option to change the application icon.  I looked online but the questions were not exactly the same as this one and pertained to earlier versions of Python anyway.  I discovered this when I was trying to associate a folder with 2.6 based programs so that it would always execute the programs with the python 2.6 .exe.  And both Pythons come up as a choice with no details indicating which is which, except a lucky guess.
>  
> It does appear that I can change the actual name of the application (the field with the name allows me to edit) but that is not what I wanted to do, also unsure if that would cause a problem in other parts of the application down the road if I was changing names like that. 
>  
> Thanks for suggestions -
> Patty
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