Alexander,

>I guess what I am trying to do is not possible. I want to use my own icons for my executables that I build in VFP, instead of the VFP Fox icon that goes on all of them and does not allow the user to change it.

Like John said you can create your own icons to use by default.

> Only Shorcuts can be changed but not the executable.

Right, they can't change the icon of the exe (unless they hack another .ico into the file), but you can't force them into only seeing your icon on a shortcut.