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Can I change the icon for a specific file?

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Sure! There are third-party tools, like the ones mentioned in the article above, but this option is also built into Windows and Mac in their default file viewers. You can actually change the properties of just about any executable and add any icon to make it customized to your taste.

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Which version of Resource Hacker should I use?

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Use the latest version.

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I able to change all in RH, when I try to rename an exe file, the app runs with an error, unable to find it's associate DLL. It's useless when I could not rename exe. How do I change exe file name in RH?

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Probably you can't rename file names in .DLL files using resource hacker as these files are reserved by the system and it is linked in system functionality. You can only replace and view the files in resource hacker.

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Why does it say my icon is "out of memory"?

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You might have too many games or files. Try deleting some of them.

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