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Console icon?

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#11,759 opened on Nov 14, 2021

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Description

I don't know if this has anything to do with conhost, but I can't think of a better place to ask "What's going on here?".

If I give this command to CMD, start "C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.EXE" cmd, I get a new instance of CMD in a console with notepad's icon. Why does specifying a title affect the icon?

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Investigate how the console host (conhost) handles window title changes and how it sets the window icon. Trace the `start` command implementation in CMD and its interaction with conhost or Windows Terminal.
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cpp
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