Today, we’ll look at the bonus icons in progman.exe<\/tt>. Some of them were auto-assigned by Windows to some programs. Others were just fun icons that you could use for your own Program Manager items.<\/p>\n It appears that at the start, the visual language was that MS-DOS programs were represented as a program running inside a frame, the frame representing the GUI frame around the MS-DOS session. (Also known informally as the MS-DOS “box”.)<\/p>\n Windows used the information in the APPS.INF<\/tt> file to identify these executables and associate them with icons and PIF file configurations.<\/p>\n Next time, we’ll look at the icons in moricons.dll<\/tt>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mostly generic-looking icons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-111149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Mostly generic-looking icons.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n <\/td>\n
\n \n\n
\n [MS-DOS word processor]
\nBrief 2.1\/3.0
\nBrief 3.1
\nDisplayWrite 3
\nDisplayWrite 4
\nDisplayWrite 5
\nDisplayWrite Assistant
\nFormtool
\nGW BASIC
\nIBM Personal Editor
\nIBM Professional Editor<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n IBM Writing Assistant 2.0
\nMicrosoft Macro Assembler
\nMicrosoft Quick Pascal
\nRightWriter
\nSoft Kicker
\nVolkswriter 3.0
\nWordStar 2000
\nWordStar Professional
\nWordStar Professional 5.5
\nWriter Rabbit
\nXY Write<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
\n \n\n
\n Lotus 1-2-3
\nLotus Access System\u00a0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n Supercalc 4.0
\nSupercalc 5.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
\n \n\n
\n [MS-DOS database]
\nAshton Tate dBase III
\nAshton Tate dBase IV
\nIBM Filing Assistant
\nInsight
\nMicrorim R:Base 3.0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n Microrim R:Base 5000
\nMicrorim R:Base Clout
\nMicrorim R:Base System V
\nParadox
\nQ & A Report Writer
\nQuick Verse 2.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
\n \n\n
\n Microsoft Online 1.0
\nPC3270
\nPFS: Access
\nProcomm<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n Prodigy
\nQModem
\nSmartcom II
\nTeleMate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
\n \n\n
\n Managing Your Money
\nMicrosoft Advanced Basic
\nMicrosoft Basic
\nMicrosoft Fortran Compiler 5.1
\nMicrosoft Macro Assembler
\nMicrosoft Make Utility<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n Microsoft Pascal Compiler
\nMicrosoft Spell
\nPFS: Plan
\nPFS: Professional Plan
\nReady!
\nTurbo Tax<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[paint]
\nPFS: First Graphics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[bar chart]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[camera]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[CD-based program]
\nMicrosoft Bookshelf<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
\n \n\n
\n [chart or file system]
\nNorton File Find
\nPFS: First Choice 3.0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n PFS: First Choice 3.1
\nPFS: Professional Network
\nXTree Gold<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[clapboard]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
\n \n\n
\n Autocad
\nAutosketch 2.0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n Autosketch 3.0
\nGeneric CADD<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[desktop publishing]
\nPFS: First Publisher
\nSoft Kicker
\nVentura Publisher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[filmstrip]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[graphing]
\nMicrosoft Chart
\nGraphWriter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[handshake]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
\n \n\n
\n Norton Utilities 4.5
\nNorton Utilities 5\/6.0<\/td>\n\u00a0<\/td>\n Sidekick 1.0
\nSidekick Plus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[mail]
\nLotus Express<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[fine art]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[newspaper]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[telephone]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[plain document]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[spreadsheet]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[sticky note]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[cassette tape]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[typewriter]
\nNorton Line Printer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[briefcase]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[door]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[large envelope]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[mailbox]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n <\/td>\n
[safe]
\nCP Anti-Virus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n <\/td>\n
[help]
\nNorton Time Mark<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n