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Hay Bob, thanks for the pointers and links.

I had actually looked at these two API's, along with a a whole list of 
others.  However, the problem (as i see it) is this:

1) I want to extract and display the default icon that is displayed for an 
executable program.  In BCB this would be "MAINICON" and in most other 
applications I think it is the icon with the ID 101 (but i'm not sure here). 
I don't want to get the shells associated icon which is displayed if not 
icon is embedded for a program.  Therefore, both SHGetFileInfo and 
ExtractAssociatedIcon will not work, becuase both look at the association 
between the .exe extension and the shell icons.

2) The problem with using LoadImage is that i need to provide it with 
lpszName value to identify the icon that i want to return.  So the question 
is, what value do i provide?  Is the default icon always 101?  In BCB / 
Delphi applications it is "MAINICON".  So based on the fact that i have a 
list of random applications, how do i determine the idetifier of the default 
icon?

Any ideas?

Many thanks

Mike

"Bob Gonder" <none@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Mike Collins wrote:
>
>>displays a x48 icon that corrisponds to the application.  Currently i'm
>>using ExtractIconEx() becuase this seems like the only to get the default
>>icon used for an applicaiton, i.e.
>> however, i only get the x32 icon.
>
> Does ExtractAssociatedIcon work for you?
> Also you might look at SHGetFileInfo.
> I seem to remember that LoadImage was the one to use.
> Fairly good info here:
> Icons in Win32
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997538.aspx
>
>