Hi Crashed Again......thanks for the tip...I will try it. I think thats what Idid before but what happened was it also changed every other same filetype to the icon I chose! So instead of executables being represented by the blue gear, they all were now the little "gimp" critter! So i am afraid if I choose an icon for gwenview, which on my desktop i have an executable....a link to the program, which is a picture of a bleu gear. And if I choose another icon, it will change every executable file to whatever I changed the icon too! Am I doing something wrong?