How to Change/Customize Icons for any Folder in Windows 10/8/7 easily.

How to Change/Customize Icons for any Folder in Windows 10/8/7 easily.

Opening computer and seeing same icons for all folders is quite boring right? Not from now. Now you can change the icons of all your important folders very easily with these 5 steps. By changing the icons like if you have a folder named "Music" you can change its icons by "Headphone".

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Benefits of changing the icons of the folders:
  • Removes confusions
  • Fast access to the computers
  • The computer looks more attractive and beautiful.


Step 1: Select the folder and select properties by right-clicking(which icon has to be changed):

This process you can apply to all your folder but one by one. First, of, all select the folder which you want to change the icon and right click on it and choose the Properties.




Step 2: Select the customize option and click on change icon:

A box will open after you select the properties. In next step 2, you have to select the customize option. Then you will find the change icon option click on it so that you can change icons according to yourself.



Step 3: Select the icon:

Again a dialog box appears to choose any custom icons for windows 10/8/7 you may like and then click on Ok.



 You can also click on Browse inside the change icon if you want other icons which are already downloaded by you. Then a new window opens now select the icon where you stored and then click on Open and then click Ok.




You should have to select an icon having the extension ".ico" only, others cannot be used to change the icons. As you can see below all those icons are in .ico format.





Windows 10/8/7 folder icons free download websites:
  • https://www.iconsdb.com/: You will get icons like hardware, browser, car, delete, database, error etc.
  • findicons.com: You will get music, social, Christmas, games icons and many more.
  • iconfinder.com: where you can get icons like a business, food, space, sports, shopping and many more.

Step 4: Select Apply and then Ok:

Now you only need to click on Apply so that you can check icon changes or not and then click on Ok to finish it.





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Also Visit: How to Customize Icons for Removable Drives and Hard Disk Drives(HDD) in Windows 10 easily.

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