Emacsclient Setup on Windows 7 Starter

Problem -- not starting a new instance of Emacs but reusing an Emacs already running when opening a file with a file type associated with Emacs in Windows Explorer on my netbook @home running Windows 7 Starter. I also wanted the icons of the associated file types to have the Emacs icon.

My quick fix to this was to

• write a bat file, runemacsclientw.bat much like the example on the EmacsWiki to start emacsclientw.exe,
• convert the bat file to exe with a simple converter,
• choosed the above bat file as batch file,
• checked Invisible application (don't know if this matters...),
• under the Versioninformation tab picked an Emacs icon file from under the etc/icons path,
• compiled, and exited,
• fix read/execute permissions for the users group on the new exe file, runemacsclientw.exe, placed in the emacs bin directory
• associate file types to be opened by Emacs with runemacsclientw.exe, and
• add (server-start) to the Emacs init file, .emacs
  

Done, now I pinned a link to runemacsclientw.exe on the taskbar and defined an alias, emacs, for runemacsclientw.exe in my .bashrc. I run cygwin/bash on my Windows boxes.