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Electron-packager windows icon not being updated

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Im setting up my icon to my electron-packager cli, but its not working. I think theres some type of cache being saved somewhere. The icon is definitely working though. Whe I goto properties the icon is correct, but the main icon on the exe is showing the original electron app icon.

How can I change it heres the code im using for icon:

--icon=src/assets/icons/win/icon.ico

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:13 (3 by maintainers)

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englishextracommented, Jan 15, 2017

@malept It’s not clear

is it already installed electron-packaged app
or is it only compiled not packed into installer

Also clear C:\Users.…\AppData\Local\IconCache.db

And drag compiled exe to desktop to see if default electron icon changes to that of yours

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maleptcommented, Jan 15, 2017

Just so I’m clear, when I say “caching issue”, I mean some sort of built-in Windows icon cache.

My inclination is that this problem does not originate with Electron Packager. This is because Electron Packager passes all of the win32 target icon information verbatim to the node-rcedit module. If it doesn’t have to do with the Windows icon cache, then it’s a bug either there or in rcedit.