Make the ablity to batch-change icons of a group of shortcuts.

Make the ability to batch-change icons of a group of shortcuts. Something like the following:


I need a program to change shortcut icons, thousands of them.

I've got a folder full of about 7,000 shortcuts, and I want to change the icons on all of them! I've already got the .ico bitmap image ready, but I certainly don't want to sit here and do 7000 manual "change icon" operations. Of course, each of these shortcuts is going to reference the same .ico file.


This was my solution. And it best illustrates what I wanted to do. 1st I opened the file folder containing all the shortcuts. Then I put it in LIST view style. Then I turned on my mouse/keyboard recorder and changed one shortcut manually using keyboard conventions, and advanced to the next shortcut. I Stopped the recorder at that point. This is what it recorded.

F R [[opened the shortcut properties window]]
C V [[pasted the path & location of the new icon image file, C:\newicon.ico, for example]]
[[closed the properties window]]
[[advance to the next file]]

I set the recoder to play that back 7000 times, and down the list it went. It changed all the shortcut icons with great dispatch! Opening each shortcut, pasting in a pointer to a new icon file, closing it, and advancing to the next. Much faster than me doing it manually. Now all these shortcuts have the same icon. All their other properties like [Target:] and [Start in:] and so on and so forth remained perfectly intact.

File that under "practical uses for a macro recorder"!