In Windows 7 is in Control Panel -> Display -> Personalization -> Change Desktop Icons Some desktop items like the Recycle Bin have to changed through Control Panel -> Display. In Windows 7 its under Control Panel -> Display -> Personalization -> Window Color -> Advanced Appearance Settings, then under Item you can adjust your icon sizes and spacing.Ĭhanging an icon that doesn't have the option There are other ways to change Icon size that can be Googled as well! Remember sometimes you will have to restart the com to see changes take effect. In addition, in Windows 7 and XP under your Control Panel -> Display you can dig around and find more options for changing Icon size (oftem under Advanced or Classic Windows settings). If your icons are too big or small, in Windows 7 you right-click an empty spot on your desktop followed by View and there will options for changing desktop icon size. Now my TEST FOLDER is a cute Haruhi Suzumiya folder! Now click Apply (2) on Properties followed by OK (3). Click or Open the one you want to turn the desktop item into!Īlmost done! A new window will pop up that is titled with Change Icon. When inside Shishi Icons, you should see all the folder icons including Haruhi and Mio. Now you need to browse your computer and find the Shishi Icons folder. Note: that new window contained default icons already available on your computer, you can change icons to these as well. Now click the Customize tab (labeled 1 in the visual example below), followed by Change Icon (2), and then on the new window that pops up click the Browse (3).
I'll show you how to change those types of files later Note: if you don't see Properties, choose another desktop item for now. I'm right clicking the test folder for this example.
You can make your own test folder or choose another desktop item.įirst right click the icon you want to change. We're going to change this folder on my desktop I named TEST FOLDER seen in the pic below. Now that you have some custom icons, you can change some of your desktop icons to the ones in the folder you just downloaded and exported! This is easy as well. A good place is My Documents or your Admin folder. In this case, the contents are a single item- the Shishi Icons folder! Now you can move the folder to a place you can easily access it later where it also won't be moved in the future.
WinRar will take the contents from the RAR and put them in the same folder the RAR is in. (3) Right-click the RAR file (downloaded from the link above) and choose Extract Here.
Its free, and you should never have to sign up for a website to download it. You need a special program called WinRar to open a RAR and get whats inside it. Its made to transfer this kind of stuff easily between computers. RARs are single files that hold large numbers of multiple files and folders of different kinds. Note: If you don't know what an RAR file is or how to extract from them, here's how: If the link doesn't work, try right-click or a different browser! Some new browsers have been having problems with links! Move the folder to a place you can easily access it later where it also won't be moved in the future.
You will extract the folder Shishi Icons, which has all the custom anime icons you saw above plus a few more. I put all my custom desktop icons in a single RAR file for you. And first, I'm sharing my own custom desktop icon files (seen above) with you! This tutorial will work for Windows XP to Windows 7.ĭownloading and installing my desktop icons (featured above) I will show you how to customize your desktop icons with ICO files, plus how to make your own icon files from other pics. However any picture file can be changed to a icon file!ĭoing all this actually pretty simple. picture files to change the look of a desktop icon. You won't be able to use JPG., GIF., or PNG. You can swap the icon of any folder or program icon on your desktop with a custom one! They have to be swapped out with an icon file (also known as ICO.), which is a different format than what most picture files are in. In my above pic you can see how I changed all the original desktop icons with custom ones. Then changed them to these icons! Click for a bigger view.Īll the program and folders on your computer are represented by icons, whether it be a standard folder icon or a program's logo.
Here is a preview of them all! (some may appear fuzzy but they won't be fuzzy on desktop)