I have a shortcut on my desktop who's icon I want to use on another shortcut. I see how to set the icon (from properties). However, I don't know the location of the icon. How can I figure out where the icon is located that I want to use?
Here is a screenshot of the properties for the shortcut (Web URL). You can see that if I click the "change icon" button it lists all of the standard available icons but does not point to the icon in the properties windows (Red "A" with black background.)
Best Answer
The information is stored in .url file, which is just a simple text file, in the line "IconFile".
I tried opening an .url file in notepad, but it downloaded the corresponding website instead. So I went via the command line:
For example you would find the icon of this .url file in:
Sample .url content: