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Re: How to....


From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:41:32 +0200

On 2005-09-27 Greg wrote:
....really shoot your XP machine in the foot, so to speak.

Pick any program shortcut that is pinned to your start menu. If you
don't have any, find any old program shortcut (or make one) then pin
it to your start menu. Now go find some other shortcut to a completely
different program and open it's properties. Copy the full path info
from that one and past it into the path info in the properties for
that other shortcut that is pinned to the start menu and click OK to
make it stick. Now carefully look at that icon. It hasn't changed. Now
click on it. The icon now starts that other program instead of the one
it looks like it is SUPPOSED to start.

Or you could simply click on "Change Icon..." while you're already in
the properties dialog, and change the icon to whatever you want. So
what? Icon and commandline of a shortcut aren't associated and never
were.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
"Another option [for defragmentation] is to back up your important files,
erase the hard disk, then reinstall Mac OS X and your backed up files."
--http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668


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