Almost all purchased programs come with their own unique icons. Some are pretty or cute, while others are ugly.
If you create your own programs or Command files (.cmd) to run several commands, you’ll end up with a plain, unattractive default Windows icon for that file type.
However, you can change the icon to any other icon that you can find on your computer.
Most icons are actually encoded into the program files themselves, but Windows knows how to find them. Windows also has a set of generic icons that you can choose to use.
Let’s create a Windows shortcut to immediately shut down your computer, without getting the Stand By, Turn Off, Restart or Cancel.
1. Right-click on a blank part of the Windows Desktop, and select New, Shortcut.
2. In the “Type the location of the item:” box, enter the following:
shutdown.exe -s -t 0
(don’t miss the “-s -t 0″ part — they mean shutdown, time delay, 0 seconds)
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