New desktop icons. How to make a folder icon (icon) from your photo

Many users pay special attention to personalizing their personal computer. Various options are available for the desktop interesting wallpaper, themes are installed that change appearance windows and panels. In Windows 7, it is possible to set custom icons for various folders and assign new icons to program shortcuts. This article describes how to change folder icons using files with the ico extension.

Folder properties

If you want to assign a special icon to a certain directory in order to somehow highlight it, you need to go to the configuration menu.

To do this you need to do the following:

Where to get ico files

Icons for Windows have their own extension - “.ico”. In the operating system there is basic set pictures that can be used as shortcuts. In addition, icons may change during installation new topic for your sis Windows themes.

If among the standard sets you could not find anything that would suit you, you can download new ico icons. There are a lot of sites on the Internet that offer their visitors to download various thematic sets or certain pictures individually.

Some resources offer shortcuts for downloading in png format. In this case, users will need to convert them to required format. To do this, you can use the special Avelcon program or any equivalent. In most cases, websites will prompt you to download all the necessary software.

Resolution: from 16x16 to 256x256
Quantity: 500-600 pcs
Format: ICO

Description: Great icons to decorate your system. The best I've been able to find on the web over a fairly long period of time.

Replacing icons for my computer, recycle bin and the like...."
1. on the desktop, right-click on empty space and in the menu that appears, select properties;
2. Select the desktop tab at the top and select desktop settings at the bottom;
3. here we should already see our familiar icons, so we select (click 1 time with the left mouse), for example, the “My Computer” icon, now that it is highlighted, click change icon... and select the icon we like from those proposed, or indicate the path to your icon (the format must be *.ICO). Once you have selected everything, click OK until you close all previously open windows.

This way we can change the icons for “My Computer”, “My Documents”, “Network Neighborhood”, and “Trash”.
This method does not use absolutely any programs, but only the standard capabilities of your OS and is therefore absolutely safe!

"How to change the icon for an extension (for a specific file type)"
1. first you need to open, for example, “My Computer” or just any folder in it;
2. at the top there is a service tab and a menu will open in which we select folder properties;
3. when you open the folder properties, there is a file types tab at the top, of course, as you may have guessed, we select it.
4. We wait for our extensions to load and now select the type of files we need to replace (file types in the list are arranged alphabetically). Let's change the icon for mp3 files, for example! We are looking for mp3 in the list (you can press the M key to go to the letter M), so we found mp3, now we left-click on it and an additional button appears at the bottom, of course we press it. Now a new window has appeared and at the top there is a button to change the icon..., click it and change the icon for all files of this type!
5. Click OK until we close all open windows.

That's it! Now all files of a certain type have changed their icon!

P.S. Please, if you don’t know, then don’t touch anything else in the file type, otherwise you can make it so that this type files will no longer open in your favorite program.
Do everything according to these instructions and everything will be fine ;) .

"How to set icons for a folder"
1. select the folder we need and right-click on it and select properties in the menu that appears;
2. select the settings tab at the top and select change icon... at the bottom;

That's it! The icon for our folder now has its own unique and beautiful, meaningful look!
"How to change icons for shortcuts"

So let's get started:
1. select the shortcut we need and right-click on it and select properties in the menu that appears;
2. Select the shortcut tab at the top and at the bottom select change icon..., this tab at the top is active by default, but still ;) ;
3. Now choose from those offered or indicate your icon.

That's it! The icon for our shortcut is whatever is convenient for you!

Many people know what icons are, because they appeared a long time ago back in the 90s. Interestingly, the first to use icons were not Windows developers, and Mac OS programmers. But over time, the Windows operating system overtook its competitor and began to use and improve the graphical component of icons with all its might. With the development of the operating room Windows systems and the Internet, a huge number of all kinds of icons have appeared. Icons are used everywhere these days; without them, no one would probably be able to work in any system. You can download icons for free and without registration on your desktop or for Windows by going to our website.

On our website you can find and download many beautiful and unusual icons on various topics. By combining icons, Windows themes, and desktop backgrounds, you can greatly transform your interface. Also great value icons are now available to web programmers; they use them to create various website elements. Web designers using icons and special programs, create amazing design projects. The collection of icons on the site will be constantly replenished and updated, I think everyone will find the type of icons that will be in demand.

All icons on the site are hand-selected and sorted, most icons have a PNG extension. In the future, icons for other extensions that have their own specific applications will appear on the site. Download icons You can absolutely free of charge, without any SMS or file sharing, just click on the button or archive with the file. Together with the selected icons, the corresponding icons will look harmonious