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As most of you know, you really can't find a FREE Icon Creator.

image to icon converter that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit/Windows Vista format icons.
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Open: ICO/BMP/PNG/PSD/EXE/DLL/ICL, Convert into: ICO/BMP/PNG/ICL

IMO, you're better off with @icon sushi and your image editor of choice.

Change the Tray Icon or ToolTip (MenuName must be TRAY)

Icon [, FileName, IconNumber, 1]: Changes the script's icon to one of the ones from FileName. The following types of files are supported: ICO, CUR, ANI, EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, and other types that contain icon resources. To use an icon group other than the first one in the file, specify its number for IconNumber (if omitted, it defaults to 1). For example, 2 would load the default icon from the second icon group. Specify an asterisk (*) for FileName to restore the script to its default icon.

The last parameter: Specify 1 for the last parameter to freeze the icon, or 0 to unfreeze it (or leave it blank to keep the frozen/unfrozen state unchanged). When the icon has been frozen, Pause and Suspend will not change it. Note: To freeze the current icon, use Menu, Tray, Icon,,, 1 ; (or 0 to unfreeze)

Changing the tray icon also changes the icon displayed by InputBox, Progress, and subsequently-created GUI windows. Compiled scripts are also affected even if a custom icon was specified at the time of compiling. Note: Changing the icon will not unhide the tray icon if it was previously hidden by means such as #NoTrayIcon; to do that, use Menu, Tray, Icon (with no parameters).

Slight distortion may occur when loading tray icons from file types other than .ICO. This is especially true for 16x16 icons. To prevent this, store the desired tray icon inside a .ICO file.

There are some icons built into the operating system's DLLs and CPLs that might be useful. For example: Menu, Tray, Icon, Shell32.dll, 174 ; Omits the DLL's path so that it works on Windows 9x too.

I seem to be going around in circle trying to figure our IF, let alone finding out how the tray icon can be changed. Is there nothing in the AHK library that'll let you rather simply change it?

If you want the same icon for the .exe and the tray, simply start Ahk2Exe manually and select the icon (click Browse next to "Custom Icon".)

I recently had a need to include a bunch of icons in a compiled script. Among them was a 32x32 icon for the .exe and Alt+Tab, and a seperate 16x16 icon for the tray (since squashing the 32x32 icon looked bad.) To do this, I used ResHacker to overwrite the default icon (for the .exe and Alt+Tab) and the suspended, paused, and paused/suspended tray icons. By default, AutoHotkey would use the 32x32 (or 48x48?) icon in the tray. To get it to use a 16x16 icon, I inserted it as a seperate icon (again, using ResHacker), and set the default tray icon in script:In this case, %A_ScriptFullPath% is the path of the compilex script (.exe), and icon #19 is my tray icon.

You could insert the icons into your script.exe, but rather than do this repetitively, I chose to make a copy of ahk2exe and AutoHotkeySC.bin just for this script. I then used ResHacker to insert/replace the icons in AutoHotkeySC.bin (which is used as the base of all compiled scripts.)

Btw, AHK Icon Changer automates ResHacker to replace the main, suspended, paused and paused/suspended icons. I did this manually, since I needed to add other icons as well.