Custom icon for desktop shortcut

Hi All,
I have a link in the portal which when the end users click should create a desktop shortcut to the portal.
I used this to create the desktop shortcut
var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop");
var oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + "
Portal.url");
oShellLink.TargetPath = "URL to the portal";
oShellLink.Save();
By default we get the IE icon for this shortcut. I want a custom icon to be associated with this shortcut.
I can use oShellLink.IconLocation but the icon needs to be in every users c:\windows folder.
Does somebody know how can I add this custom icon?
Many Thanks,
Akhilesh

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"TonyEB" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:fb57gl$ea4$[email protected]..
> Hi,
>
> How do you incorporate an Icon in to your website so
that when someone
> puts a
> web short cut on their desktop it changes from the
default to your
> customized
> one. Where in DW CS3 do you put this file?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Tony
>

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