Cygwin Icon Broken to Terminal Only

Question

I have had Cygwin installed to my Win10 Home PC for about a year, recently the icon for the Cygwin terminal went bad when accessed from the context menu:

>>Right-Click of Context Menu Selection (icon missing?)

The icon looks correct on the application file (mintty.exe), in the Start menu shortcut, in the context menu listing and even the Cygwin terminal when opened from the start menu -

>>Start Menu Selection (icon correct)

I have enabled the context menu selection with the "Icon" string value as follows:

• Location #1: HKCR\Drive\shell\cygwin64_bash

• Loc: HKCR\Directory\Background\shell\cygwin64_bash

• Loc: HKCR\Directory\shell\cygwin64_bash

• Value: "D:\Documents\MyMedia\MyIcons\sw\Cygwin\cygwin_logo.ico"

What is the issue here, how can I get context menu's terminal icon restored?

Answer 1

Got it, this one was simple! I had been calling 'bash.exe', not 'mintty.exe'. Changing this in the command key quickly resolved the problem -

Neat! Note that mintty.exe has an icon on my computer, while bash.exe does not, so the observed behavior was expected.

Useful Resources

• Stack Overflow - Windows Cygwin Bash.exe vs. mintty.exe
• How-ToGeek - How to Modify the Icon of an EXE File