Another thing that gives identity in your executable file is the icon. All builders, like Borland C++ Builder, give an option to the user who make a software application to customize the icon of their executable file. And doing so is as easy as browsing the location of the icon file and compiling it. Maybe the only serious problem here is, how can i make an icon?

Well, most of the builders require that the icon has a .ico extension. You have two option to create an icon file, first, by manually creating it, like doing a drawing in the MS Paint, or secondly, convert an existing jpeg, bmp, or gif image to icon image. The latter is pretty much easy to do if you are not a painting artist.

There are so many software in the internet that can help us in doing this job, either free or you have to buy it. But which one we will use? Of course, we don’t want to spend any single centavo just to do this simple icon making problem. I will suggest to use Microangelo Creation (can be downloaded at www.microangelo.us). Unlike other icon making software that I’d tried, it does not put any unnecesary spots in the icon ,although, it is a free version. However it is good only for 21 days. But you can still use it after 21 days after the trial period has expired by uninstalling it and installing it again. It is easy to use, you can create an icon image in your own or you can convert an existing image file to icon file.