custom database icon

[merlin777]

I've followed all the advice for creating and installing a custom icon for my database but I'm still seeing the access icon.

I've done these things - can anyone see if I've got something wrong?

I made a 32x32 bitmap in photoshop.
I saved it in the same folder as my database.
I opened access 2007 with my database
I went to access options/current database/application options/application icon and browsed for my bitmap.
Clicked on use as form and report icon.
Closed everything and reopened my database.

I couldn't see my icon anywhere in explorer, access or my desktop shortcut for my database.

I repeated all this except I put the bitmap into an online icon creator and downloaded an .icon for win vista and win 7 which I selected as above.

Still nothing. What on earth am I doing wrong?

 

[merlin777]

Try saving it as an .ico first. See attached.

the zipped file seems to be a .ico and it won't open...

 

[merlin777]

ok - I put it in the folder with my database, selected it with access options and closed access. The icon next to my database file is still the default access icon and I can't see the pencil icon anywhere except on the icon file.

I'm using vista - are there any other settings I need to change to make this work?

 

[merlin777]

what view do you have there? My 2007 doesn't look like this - there's no icon top left. However, my icon has appeared on the taskbar on the tab for an open application - so it must be working! It seems it's just my ignorance of access making me expect to see it where it's not actually going to be different.

I think I must be missing something really fundamental (I've only been learning it for a week or so). The only views I see of forms, tables, queries and reports are those views I choose when I click on them in the navigation pane (design, form, layout etc). I can't see an option to have them open in separate windows at the same time, just a set of tabs showing one object at a time. Sorry if this is al really basic. Books don't really seem to cover these things.