Prior to Horizon 7.9, in order to add custom application icons to an Application launcher you are required to run a PowerCLI cmdlet:
Set-HVApplicationIcon -ApplicationName MyApp -IconPath "C:\MyIcons\MyApp.pngThe important thing to note here is that it only accepts PNG files as input. However what if you only have a giant collection of ICO files you want to use.
That’s where I found myself with a few hundred icons which i needed to convert to PNG and remove the transparency setting it as white, so I wrote the following PowerShell Script to extract the bitmaps from the ico and then convert to PNG.
#Convert-ICO2PNG.ps1
$files = Get-ChildItem "C:\icotest" -Filter *.ico -file -Recurse |
foreach-object {
$Source = $_.FullName
$test = [System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($source)
$base= $_.BaseName+".png"
$basedir = $test+"\"+$base
Write-Host $basedir
Add-Type -AssemblyName system.drawing
$imageFormat = "System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat" -as [type]
$image = [drawing.image]::FromFile($Source)
# Create a new image
$NewImage = [System.Drawing.Bitmap]::new($Image.Width,$Image.Height)
$NewImage.SetResolution($Image.HorizontalResolution,$Image.VerticalResolution)
# Add graphics based on the new image
$Graphics = [System.Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage($NewImage)
$Graphics.Clear([System.Drawing.Color]::White) # Set the color to white
$Graphics.DrawImageUnscaled($image,0,0) # Add the contents of $image
# Now save the $NewImage
$NewImage.Save($basedir,$imageFormat::Png)} Now you’ve got your PNGs you can add them to your application. See here for a script on doing that: LINK