Microsoft KB Archive/97843

= Addicons Adds Program Groups and Icons to Program Manager =

Article ID: 97843

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006



This article was previously published under Q97843



SUMMARY
Because LAN Manager 2.2 setup is MS-DOS-based and requires dynamic data exchange, Setup uses the Addicons utility as a proxy to add icons to the Program Manager.

During installation, Setup creates an ADDICONS.INI file--which describes what program groups to create and what icons to put in them--then adds Addicons to the LOAD= line of WIN.INI.

The first time Windows is loaded after LAN Manager setup, Addicons reads its .INI file, adds the groups and icons, removes itself from the WIN.INI LOAD= line, and exits.

Here is a sample .INI file in which two groups are made: Group1 (LAN Manager) has one program added, and TestGrp (The cool test group!) has two programs added. [groups] group1=LAN Manager TestGrp=The cool test group!

[group1] 1=NetAdmin,c:\lm22.dos\netprog\netadmin.exe

[TestGrp] 1=notepad,notepad.exe 2=Wonder Term, c:\windows\bogus\path\to\wondtrm.exe

Additional query words: 2.00 2.10 a 2.20

Keywords: KB97843

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