diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1f65dae91..7815ad7c7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- **Windows: the app list and the file picker wear the current icon.** The icon
+  linked into the executable was still the purple meteor retired two releases
+  ago, and it is the one Windows draws in two places the window itself never
+  covers: the Start Menu's app list, and the taskbar button of the native file
+  picker — the dialog that opens a project. So the window and its taskbar entry
+  showed the current mark while the app list, one keypress away, showed the old
+  one. Both now match.
+
 - **The dock now reviews the directory the session is actually working in.** A
   session that moved — spawned in one checkout and `cd`-ed into another
   repository — moved its card and the footer with it: both read the live working
diff --git a/Taskfile.yml b/Taskfile.yml
index 05a98b281..4173befa0 100644
--- a/Taskfile.yml
+++ b/Taskfile.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ tasks:
     cmds:
       - cmd: CGO_ENABLED=0 go build {{.GO_BUILD_FLAGS}} -o {{.BIN_DIR}}/{{.APP_NAME}} .
 
+  icons:windows:
+    desc: Regenerate rsrc_windows_amd64.syso from build/windows/lich.ico
+    cmds:
+      # The .syso is the resource the Windows executable links, and it is the
+      # only source of the exe's icon: the Start Menu shortcut and the native
+      # file picker (an in-process COM dialog) both draw it. Nothing rebuilds
+      # it automatically, so a new lich.ico that skips this task ships an
+      # executable still wearing the previous mark.
+      - cmd: go run github.com/akavel/rsrc@v0.10.2 -ico build/windows/lich.ico -arch amd64 -o rsrc_windows_amd64.syso
+
   build:windows:
     desc: Cross-compile the Windows binary (experimental)
     deps: [build:frontend]
diff --git a/internal/project/picker.go b/internal/project/picker.go
index 9ca36ab24..623835925 100644
--- a/internal/project/picker.go
+++ b/internal/project/picker.go
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ncruces/zenity"
 )
 
-// ZenityPicker shells out to zenity/qarma (github.com/ncruces/zenity) — the
-// Chromium shell has no native dialog of its own. Cancel maps to ("", nil).
+// ZenityPicker opens the OS file chooser through github.com/ncruces/zenity —
+// the Chromium shell has no native dialog of its own. Only Linux shells out to
+// zenity/qarma; Windows and macOS run the dialog in-process, so there it is a
+// window of lich's own and wears the executable's icon. Cancel maps to ("", nil).
 type ZenityPicker struct{}
 
 func (ZenityPicker) PickDirectory(title string) (string, error) {
diff --git a/rsrc_windows_amd64.syso b/rsrc_windows_amd64.syso
index 5940a8940..3f442e7ba 100644
Binary files a/rsrc_windows_amd64.syso and b/rsrc_windows_amd64.syso differ