▷ How to customize and change icons in windows 10

Today we bring another step by step that will delight lovers of Windows customization. This time we will see how to change icons in Windows 10, for this we will study the options that the system gives us natively and we will also install custom icons obtained from the internet to give a 360 degree turn to the appearance of our folders.

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In addition to the customization options that Windows brings by default, we can also install custom icons ourselves to completely change the appearance of our system.

Change Windows desktop icons

The first thing we find when we start Windows is your desktop. And in this we will have a series of basic icons by default. These will be typical of the recycle bin, My computer, etc. Let's see what we can do with them.

To access the customization options we are going to right-click on the desktop and we are going to choose “ Personalize ”. Next, we are going to “ Themes ” and in the right part of the window we find “ Desktop icon settings ”

Now a window will appear showing us the icons that we have active on our desktop. To put more or less we activate their corresponding boxes. If we want to personalize these icons, we select the one that we want and we choose the option " change icon "

Pressing will open a window with a large number of icons. We can choose the one we want and this will be shown in the aspect of the icon.

To finish we accept the changes and our configuration will have been saved.

Change folder icons in Windows 10

In addition to the desktop icons, we can also change the icons of the folders and shortcuts of our system. For this we must do the following.

We go to any folder or shortcut we want to modify and right click on it to open its options. Now we are going to choose " Properties "

Within the new window, we go to the " Personalize " tab. All the icons that have this tab can be modified. Now we choose the last option of all " Change icon... "

In this way we can modify the icons of the folders of the file explorer.

If what we want is to customize the icon of a shortcut, we must go to the " Shortcut " tab, there will be the option to " Change icon..."

Download custom icons for Windows 10

If we are tired of the same icons as always what we have to do is download the ones that we like. There are many search engines and pages to search and download custom icons for Windows 10:

To download any icon we use we will search for each of the pages or browse its options. The most normal thing is that when you access any of them, you provide us with the download link.

Once downloaded we will have a file that we must decompress.

When we access its content, we must make sure that the file extension is “ .ICO ”. This will be the one that interests us.

To apply it to a folder we will do the same steps as in the previous section, but in this case we must locate the directory where our icon is located.

We recommend storing the icons in a place that we do not have the need to move, since if we modify their location, the folders and files that have these will return to their original state.

We also recommend our customization tutorials:

Are you ready to customize your system icons? If you have any suggestion or problem leave us in the comments, we will help you in any way we can