Your welcome, if you want a quick cheat, search your drive for *.RES files and include one in your project, whatever the first icon is
will appear as your exe icon in explorer..

>>Add a resource file (.RES) to your project with the icon inside it, if you project does not a form icon, windows looks for an embedded resource
>>file and uses the icon from it. See MSDN help topic - "resource files, adding resources to project" if you haven't worked with resource files
>>before..
>>
>>HTH,
>>Ed
>>
>>>Anyone know how to assign an Icon to an exe when there is no form without using a dummy form? I am going for the smallest size here.
>>>
>>>Huge thanks,
>
>I'll be checking this out today. Thabk you.