Anyone reading this: if you decide to download and use the tool mentioned in the previous comment, please remember that I have nothing to do with it, and I don’t take any responsibility for it.

Generally, there sure are tools that would do that (including PowerToys from Microsoft, if I remember correctly). What I’ve described is a method of achieving the result without any such tool.

i’ve had it for many years, i don’t know its’ author and it doesn’t have a gui(about) or file version propertysheet to find out.. anyway it does the job, however i never had that problem when changing icons into binaries.. usually an F5 will suffice, but i do use it when i change icons for registered file types..those don’t refresh unless i use that tool.

it works flawlessly on xpee.. i suppose it should work on vista