Select an icon you on the list or Browse an icon that you wish to replace the old one. Not all of the applications you install contain several other icons to replace the original. There are times an application can only contain one icon and if it does you cannot change its icon on the desktop.
To change the icon of the program displayed in your desktop, right-click on the icon of your preferred program and then select Properties. You can also select and browse for other icons besides the one available in your program. You only need to click on the Browse button and then select the file that contains icons or go to a folder that contains different icons.
This process is somewhat similar when changing the icon of a folder. To change the icon used by a folder, right-click on the folder then select Properties. Select Customize tab. Select the icon you like then click OK throughout. Tooltip text allows you to add custom text when hovering the pointer over the folder.
The Warn when deleting check box has no effect on operating systems newer than XP. A useful feature is the Multiple Select checkbox at the top which allows selecting several folders to have their icon colors changed at once.
Click Colorize to apply the color to the folder and decolorize to revert the icon back to normal. Like Folder Marker, Rainbow Folders has a right click context menu option although this one simply opens the program instead of letting you choose an icon from the menu. Changing several folders to different icons is easier with the methods above. There is a simple option built in that allows you to choose a different icon for any standard folder.
All you need to do is right click on the folder that you want to change and select Properties. Click on the far right Customize tab and then press the Change Icon button at the bottom. By default, the system Shell Click Browse and locate a custom icon file or a file which includes the icon you want to use. The icon changer accepts a standard icon file.
Press OK when you have clicked on and selected the correct icon. Even though you can select multiple folders and change the icon from the Customize tab, it still only affects one folder at a time. If for some reason the tools above are not producing the desired effect or you would like to know how to change folder icons the manual way, this is how to do it. Third party tools and Windows use the same method. To show the desktop. Click Ok when done.
The reason for this is explained further down. The first line tells Windows there are custom folder settings while the second is the full path to the icon file. The value after the comma is the index number of the icon inside the file. If there are ten icons in a.
After entering the two lines using your own icon path and the index value, save the file. Now you can rename it to desktop. It is important that you rename the file to desktop. You need to make this next change or the desktop. Set the Read-only attribute for the folder itself. This cannot be done from the Windows user interface so Command Prompt is an easy option.
Make sure to use quotes if your path has spaces. The desktop. Unlike files, the Read-Only attribute does not affect whether the folder can be deleted. This step is optional and sets the attributes for the desktop. This will hide the ini file and stop it being edited or deleted, providing you revert the view settings in Folder Options to the defaults. The folder should change immediately to the custom icon but if not, it will usually do so after several seconds and you go into the folder or refresh the view in Explorer.
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However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.
For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:. If a Close Open Programs Interaction dialog box is displayed, close all open windows. Create the Max Cached Icons registry key, and then set the value of that key to If the Max Cached Icons registry value does not exist, create it, and then set it to If the Max Cached Icons registry value exists, set it to
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