Solution is: Add [Setup] UninstallDisplayIcon={app}\{#MyAppExeName} Specifying the actual ico file did not work, but this entry did. I tested against Windows 8/8.1. Windows 7 works without this line.
Turns out you can also do this with Gimp, as described here: Open the largest of the icon images in The GIMP. Right-click on the image and select File->Open as Layers… and select all the other icon images. This will create a single image with a layer containing each of the other icon images. Save … Read more
Short answer: 16 x 16 pixels. Long answer: .ico files can actually contain multiple images, at multiple colour depths – you can provide 16×16, 32×32, 48×48 and 64×64 in a single file and the OS will pick the best one to show. Of course to keep the file size low you don’t want to put … Read more
Most browsers look for the existence of an file called favicon.ico at the root path of your website domain, this controls the icon for the website you can see in your bookmarks folder or the address bar of your browser. If you don’t have one, then it’s valid that it would return a Not Found … Read more
To avoid duplicating anything of the original file, you can actually override the template while extending it (docs). So create your own template/admin/base_site.html: {% extends “admin/base_site.html” %} {% load static %} {% block extrahead %} <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”{% static ‘yourapp/img/favicon.ico’ %}” /> {% endblock %}
For compatibility with all browsers stick with .ico. .png is getting more and more support though as it is easier to create using multiple programs. for .ico <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://example.com/myicon.ico” /> for .png, you need to specify the type <link rel=”icon” type=”image/png” href=”http://example.com/image.png” />
All modern browsers (tested with Chrome 4, Firefox 3.5, IE8, Opera 10 and Safari 4) will always request a favicon.ico unless you’ve specified a shortcut icon via <link>. So if you don’t explicitly specify one, it’s best to always have a favicon.ico file, to avoid a 404. Yahoo! suggests you make it small and cacheable. … Read more