Get-AssociatedIcon

NAME Get-AssociatedIcon



SYNOPSIS

Gets the icon associated with a program or file.





SYNTAX

Get-AssociatedIcon [-Path] <String[]> [<CommonParameters>]





DESCRIPTION

Get-AssociatedIcon retrieves the icon that Windows associates with that program or file.





PARAMETERS

-Path <String[]>

The path to the file containing the image to retrieve.



Required? true

Position? 1

Default value

Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue, ByPropertyName)

Accept wildcard characters? false



<CommonParameters>

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,

ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,

OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see

about_CommonParameters (https:/go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216).



INPUTS

System.String



Get-AssociatedIcon accepts string objects of file paths to the Path parameter binding to the Path property.





OUTPUTS

System.Drawing.Icon



Get-AssociatedIcon outputs a System.Drawing.Icon object representing the icon.





-------------------------- EXAMPLE 1 --------------------------



PS C:>Get-AssociatedIcon -Path C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe



This command will retrieve the icon associated with the PowerShell program.











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