I'm using Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. When I create a Windows
application it provides an icon and a small icon for me. However, they
are always the same - a picture of a window. I was hoping to use a
different icon, and was wondering if there were any handily around that
I could choose from.

Windows XP seems to have an array of icons (eg if you try setting up a
PIF there are a whole load of them, stored in PIFMGR.DLL). Can these
icons be extracted easily? What would I do about getting equivalent
small icons? Or is there another easy source of icons?

The help for Visual C++ suggests that there is a file containing icons
at Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\VS2005ImageLibrary\
. I can't find this, or anything like it - would I have to download it?
Would I have to pay for it?

And if this is not the right newsgroup for this sort of question, could
you point me to a more suitable one?

Thanks in advance for any help.
Paul.

Sat 13-Jan-2007: Update
182662 Jan 13 2007 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tscmd.zip
tscmd42.zip Useful NT/2000/XP script tricks and tips, T.Salmi

The changes include:
MAILDATE.CMD Build a message's "From" header
Added an /SUBJ switch to include the subject from the email header
with the date added.

NAMEDOWN.CMD Covert a filename to lower case
NAMEUP.CMD Covert a filename to upper case
Corrected the bug that caused a failure for filenames with
parentheses.

Added to the FAQ file 1CMDFAQ.TXT
154} How do I remove leading zeros from a string with script only?
155} How can I use command-line to open a Windows Explorer Window?
156} How does one create a stortcut using the command-line?
157} How to get the count of words and the last word of a variable?

All the best, Timo