diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a65cd82..bdd4cb0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+1.?
+ * Created a Windows application icon and embedded it into generated
+   Luminotes executable.
+ * 
+
 1.4.27: August 22, 2008
  * Fixed a bug in tools/initdb.py and tools/updatedb.py that caused them to
    only use some of the configured settings.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 267f606..76c3c61 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ class Luminotes( Distribution ):
     self.ctypes_com_server = []
     self.com_server = []
     self.services = []
-    self.windows = [ "luminotes.py" ]
+    self.windows = [ dict(
+      script = "luminotes.py",
+      icon_resources = [ ( 0, "static\\images\\luminotes.ico" ) ],
+    ) ]
     self.console = []
     self.service = []
     self.isapi = []
diff --git a/static/images/images.txt b/static/images/images.txt
index dd91932..2f05d53 100644
--- a/static/images/images.txt
+++ b/static/images/images.txt
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ http://groups-beta.google.com/groups/roundedcorners?c=b0d0ff&bc=fafafa&w=6&h=6&a
 The title image is in a 50 pt Qlassik medium font, with a 25 pt sub-heading
 and a manually modified "k" character.
 
-The luminotes.ico Windows icon was created with the following command:
+The luminotes.ico Windows icon was created by converting favicon*.xcf to PNG with
+the Gimp and then running the following command on the resulting PNGs:
 
 icotool -c -t 0 favicon.png favicon_large.png favicon_quite_large.png -o luminotes.ico