multiple icons on task bar

[misslee1888]

I followed the thread below and managed to get my own icon on my database.

http://www.access-programmers.co.uk...light=form+icon

This icon appears on the taskbar when I open the database. However as soon as I open a form on the database I then have two icons on the task bar for that database, one for the database and one for the form and these icons are using the naff access form icon instead of my icon.

I have gone into Tools>>Options>>Windows in taskbar and unchecked this. Now when I open the database and open forms I have one icon ( using my icon) on the taskbar.

This is good, however this means that I can only open on database at a time.
What I want is access to allow me to use my own icons and allow me to open as many databases as I want, and only have one icon per database on the taskbar.

Is this possible
Can anyone help???

 

[GumbyD]

Not sure if this is what you are asking, but if you go to tools, options if you have the "windows in taskbar" item selected then uncheck it. Is that what you were looking for?

 

[misslee1888]

The problem is that when this is ticked this will open more than one icon for the database and it uses the default icon in access and not the one that I have set.

However when i untick it, access only shows one icon on the taskbar for the database, and it uses my icon, but it only lets me open one database at a time. If I try and open a second database, it forces me to close the one I have open before it opens the second on.

What I want is to have one icon on the task bar per database and the ability to open more that on database at one time.

I hope I am explaining this correctly.

 

[GumbyD]

They way we did it was by adding a registry entry - but we have a full profile added in when a user opens the software in Access. We added a key called "Run-Time Options" and then inside the key added a string Value called "Icon" with its value set to the icon's path. If you are not opening access in a profile you created then I do not think this method will work for you. You could try adding it to the base key under microsoft office - but playing with the registry is always dangerous, so be careful!