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shabbir

This can be done probably by reading the ico file using the

Code: CPP

//Create the file
hFile = CreateFile(L"PathToIconFile", GENERIC_READ, 
                   0,
                   NULL,
                   OPEN_EXISTING,
                   FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL,
                   NULL);
// Read the bunary data of the file
ReadFile(hFile, lpBuffer, dwFileSize, &dwBytesRead, NULL)

then you can update the destination EXE as follow

Code: CPP

hResource = BeginUpdateResource(L"C:\\...\\t3.exe", FALSE);
if (NULL != hResource)
{
    if (UpdateResource(hResource, 
        RT_ICON, 
        MAKEINTRESOURCE(1), 
        MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), 
        (LPVOID) lpBuffer, 
        dwFileSize) != FALSE)
    {
        EndUpdateResource(hResource, FALSE);
    }
}

Note this is not working code but just providing hints as how this can be done. If you find something better do share with us.