difference between icons in the quicklaunch bar and on the desktop?

I have windows Vista, but it seems a lot like win7.

Not too important, but wanted to mention it.

Is there a difference between icons in the quicklaunch bar and icons
on the desktop. Can one have the target changed and not the other?


I installed Forte Agent ver. 6 along with ver 1.93, and so I could
tell them apart in Task Manager's list of Processes, I renamed
agent.exe to agent19.exe. Using explorer.

To my surprise, the icon in the Quick Launch Bar showed a target with
the same new file name, agent19.exe. How cool is that! Is that
normal???

It still didnt' start, but that's another issue, which I might post
about eventually.

But today, a few days later, I notice the icon in the quicklaunch bar
has changed to a default icon, and when I open the shortcut properties
and try to assign a new icon, it says it can't find
%systemdrive%....agent.exe , even though the program in the target is
still agent19.exe, not agent.exe. And get this, if I change the
target to something else, it still wants to find the icon in
agent.exe.

I know I can delete the icon and copy another one in from the desktop,
but I'm curious.

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:10:31 -0400, Micky
wrote:


Is there a difference between icons in the quicklaunch bar and icons
on the desktop.


Two minor differences:

1. Desktop icons need to be double-clicked, but Quick Launch icons are
single-clicked.

2. Desktop icons get covered up by open applications. Quick Launch
icons are always visible.

Are you sure you're not talking about taskbar
icons that you've "pinned"? If you want an
actual QuickLaunch in Win7 (and I assume in
Vista), you have to set it up. (Instructions
easily found online.)

Micky wrote:
I have windows Vista, but it seems a lot like win7.

Not too important, but wanted to mention it.

Is there a difference between icons in the quicklaunch bar and icons
on the desktop. Can one have the target changed and not the other?


I installed Forte Agent ver. 6 along with ver 1.93, and so I could
tell them apart in Task Manager's list of Processes, I renamed
agent.exe to agent19.exe. Using explorer.

To my surprise, the icon in the Quick Launch Bar showed a target with
the same new file name, agent19.exe. How cool is that! Is that
normal???

It still didnt' start, but that's another issue, which I might post
about eventually.

But today, a few days later, I notice the icon in the quicklaunch bar
has changed to a default icon, and when I open the shortcut properties
and try to assign a new icon, it says it can't find
%systemdrive%....agent.exe , even though the program in the target is
still agent19.exe, not agent.exe. And get this, if I change the
target to something else, it still wants to find the icon in
agent.exe.

I know I can delete the icon and copy another one in from the desktop,
but I'm curious.



If using the same shortcut (path/location to the shortcut) the icon is
the same for each.
If the Quick Launch folder in your userprofile
(\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch) has a
shortcut independent of the desktop shortucut then the icon can be
different (e.g. file properties/change icon)

If the shortcut icon changes and can't be changed - delete and recreate
the shortcuts.

--
....winston
msft mvp consumer apps