May 7th, 2025
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What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

Raymond Chen

Last time, we looked at the legacy icons in progman.exe. But what about moricons.dll?

Here’s a table of the icons that were present in the original Windows 3.1 moricons.dll file (in file order) and the programs that Windows used the icons for. As with the icons in progman.exe, these icons are mapped from executables according to the information in the APPS.INF file.

Generic MS-DOS prompt
Fancy MS-DOS logo
Microsoft Basic Compiler
Microsoft C Compiler 7.0
Microsoft Quick C
Microsoft C Compiler 6.0
Microsoft C Compiler 5.1
Microsoft Quick C with QASM
Flight Simulator 3.0
Flight Simulator 4.0
Learning MS-DOS Quick Reference
Learning Microsoft Works
Learning MS-DOS 3.0
MS Quick Pascal Express 1.0
Learning Microsoft Word 5.0
Learning Microsoft Word 5.5
Microsoft Multiplan
Microsoft Project
PC Config 7.x
Microsoft Word 4.0
Microsoft Word 5.0
Microsoft Word 5.5
Microsoft Works 1.x
Microsoft Works 2.0
MS-DOS Editor
Microsoft Game Shop
Programmer’s WorkBench
Microsoft QuickBASIC
Microsoft QBASIC
Microsoft QuickBasic Extended
APPLAUSE II 1.5
Framework II
Framework III
MultiMate
MultiMate 4.0
Extra! for MS-DOS
Now!
Kid Pix
Borland C++ IDE
Quattro Pro 1.0
Quattro Pro 2.0 to 4.0
Turbo Pascal 5.0
Turbo Pascal 6.0
Paradox 3.0
Paradox 3.5
Paradox SE
Reflex 2.0
ACCPAC BPI
ACCPAC Plus
HotWire
Procomm Plus 1.1B
Procomm Plus
DataEase
Crosstalk Mark 4
Crosstalk-XVI 3.71
Remote 2 call
PATHWORKS Mail for MS-DOS
Network Control Program
SEDT Editor
Sethost Terminal Emulator
Decnet Job Spawner
FTP FTPSRV Utility
FTP LPQ Utility
FTP LPR Utility
FTP PCMAIL Utility
FTP PING Utility
FTP RLOGINVT Utility
FTP RSH Utility
FTP TN Utility
FTP VMAIL Utility
[programs by FTP Software]
OPTune
Q-DOS 3
Quicken
KnowledgePro (MS-DOS)
Lotus 1-2-3 3.1
Lotus 1-2-3 2.2 to 2.4
Lotus 1-2-3 2.3 WYSIWYG
Lotus Agenda
Freelance Plus 3.0
Freelance Plus 4.0
cc:Mail for MS-DOS
Magellan 2.0
Relay Gold
Close-Up 4.0
Manifest
Harvard Graphics 2.3
Harvard Graphics 3.0
Harvard GeoGraphics
Harvard Project Manager
Harvard Total Project Manager
OfficeWriter
OfficeWriter 6.2
Professional Write
Professional File
SPSS/PC+
LapLink Pro
WordStar Professional 6.0
WPOffice Calculator
WPOffice Calendar
DataPerfect
DrawPerfect
WPOffice Editor
WPOffice File Manager
LetterPerfect
WPMail
WPOffice NoteBook
PlanPerfect
Scheduler
Word Perfect Office
Word Perfect
Reflection 1
Reflection 2
Reflection 4
Reflection 7
Reflection 8
XcelleNet X/Mail for MS-DOS
PC Paintbrush IV Plus
PATHWORKS for DOS
PCTOOLS – View
FoxPro
Foxbase Plus
Harvard Graphics 2.0
Harvard Graphics 2.1
Interleaf 5 for MS-DOS
LotusWorks 1.0
Symphony 2.2
Symphony (Access)
SAS 604
Sidekick 2.0
Microsoft Mail – Admin
Microsoft Mail
Access for DOS
PCTools Desktop 5.5
PCTools Desktop 6.0
PCTools Desktop 7.x
PCTOOLS – Directory Maintenance
Comm Server 3270
PCTools PCShell 5.5
PCTools PCShell 6.0
PCTools PCShell 7.x

Maybe seeing these program names will bring back a wave of nostalgia. Or maybe you’d rather forget that any of these ever existed.

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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  • Alexey Shiryaev

    Oh, finally, after 31 years I know them all 😁
    Some of them I guessed just by icon, some accidentally discovered when I created a shortcut for DOS program

  • Ivan Kljajic

    They probably heavily riffed off the companys’ marketing / user manuals / box art to start with?

  • Erik Fjeldstrom

    I was sure that I remembered where the “fancy” MS-DOS logo came from, and it’s from the MS-DOS 5.0 upgrade box (I’m not sure if Microsoft had a retail non-upgrade box back then.) OEMs often took a black-and-white version of it and slapped it on their own boxes and manuals.

  • Peter Hull

    Definitely a nostalgia trip! What was “Reflection” ? – I had no luck googling as it’s such a generic word. Also why were those loyal Reflection 3 5 & 6 users left in the cold?

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