Application icon is absent

ID PE073 Level INFO Category Configuration

Description

Application executable icon is absent. Windows Explorer and other file information viewers will not be able to show a custom icon.

Mitigation

If using Visual C++:

  • Add the ICON resource to the application resource (rc) file. Note that the icon with the lowest ID or the lexicographically first name value will be used as an application icon. For example, if you have icons with IDs and names "ICON1", "ABC", 1, 10, then the "ABC" icon will be used, because it is alphabetically the first one (named icons go before numbered icons).

If using Visual Studio with C# or Visual Basic:

Arguments

This rule has no output arguments.