Jazz Up your Folder and Drive Icons

[Daffy D]

Fed up with same old boring yellow folders, now you can change any or all your folder Icons into any Icon you want.

 

Any to Icon will convert any image or picture into an Icon (.ico) that you can use to jazz up your boring yellow folders.

 

For example if you have a folder full of puppy photos you change the folder to a picture of a puppy so it will be easy to find in a page full of yellow folders.

 

Once you have your Icon use Dr Folder to place the new Icon on the folder of your choice.

 

You can also change your drive Icons with Drive Icon Changer. 

 

To change the boring VLCPlayer traffic come Icon into something more exiting you can use VLC PLayer Icon Changer

 

Any to Icon  

http://www.ahasoft.com/anytoicon/index.htm

Any to Icon 3.59 converts BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, TGA, TIFF, WMF, WBMP, XPM, XBM and CUR formats into Windows icons. You can add files and folders from Windows Explorer or other file shells using drag and drop. You also can paste bitmaps from the clipboard and change color resolution and size to create customized icons. It's possible to convert 256-color icons into True Color icons and vice versa.

( Sorry not free but available at huge discount for readers of this post from TPB and 1337x)

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Dr. Folder    

https://www.pcclean.io/dr-folder/download/

Dr. Folder is a software that search and replace the standard icon of a folder on any other icon. It has a pretty and friendly interface. It is a powerful software and easy to use. You can change icons of folders quickly and freely just by clicking several buttons. So, using Dr. Folder can save you lots of time. The most important is that it can make your folders lively and I think others will envy your beautiful folders!

( Sorry not free but available at huge discount for readers of this post from TPB and 1337x)

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Drive Icon Changer  - Freeware

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/drive_icon_changer.html

Drive Icon Changer helps you customize your hard drive icon shown in My Computer and Windows Explorer to an icon of your personal choice.

To change the icon, simply select the drive from the drop-down menu of which you want to change the icon. Then browse to the location of the icon you desire and click “Save”.

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VLC Player Icon Changer  -  Free

https://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Icons-Related/VLC-Icon-Changer.shtml

 

Enjoy  
 

[Daffy D]

 Any to Icon Proper:-

 

http://www.aha-soft.com/anytoicon

 

 

[BigStar]

 

There's that, but why so little? Do it up right by applying a package system-wide.

 

https://www.stardock.com/products/iconpackager/

 

BTW, for those of you who DARE, you cavemen, to change the Win 10 start menu back to something more convenient, there's an update to Open Shell now that gets its automatic updating feature working well.

[Daffy D]

3 hours ago, BigStar said:

 

There's that, but why so little? Do it up right by applying a package system-wide.

 

https://www.stardock.com/products/iconpackager/

 

BTW, for those of you who DARE, you cavemen, to change the Win 10 start menu back to something more convenient, there's an update to Open Shell now that gets its automatic updating feature working well.

 

That's  fine if you want to change all your Icons to sets they provide.

 

With Any To Icon you can make any image or picture into an Icon 

 

Any to Icon

[KannikaP]

If you are looking at your desktop with all your nice new icons, then you are not working.   LOL

[fangless]

Why not just use the "change Icon" function in folder properties?

[fangless]

15 hours ago, Daffy D said:

With Any To Icon you can make any image or picture into an Icon

Many photo editors let you save in icon format!

[BigStar]

18 hours ago, KannikaP said:

If you are looking at your desktop with all your nice new icons, then you are not working.   LOL

The idea of Win UI customization really bothers our hardhat TVF Computer Experts, esp those proudly specializing in PC Lego.

 

If you spend a lot of time at your computer, however, the aesthetics can make it pass a bit more pleasantly, mitigating some of the UI annoyances, and even increase your productivity. Per this example, distinctive icons enable faster location of particular folders or programs.

 

There's much, much more, with the help of various tools, themes, skins . . . . The VLC player icon doesn't much bother me (so much as the Win 10 Start button, which I changed), and I have no icons on my desktop, but the overall VLC look does, so my VLC looks more like this:

 

https://www.deviantart.com/schwax/art/Final-Dark-588840029

 

Check out more suggestions here:

 

https://www.rogtechs.com/best-vlc-skins/#:~:text=16 Best VLC Skins for VLC Media Player,4. MetroX. 5 5. Alienware Darkstar. More items

 

Win UI customization has always been a little industry but really picked up steam with the advent of Win XP. Then there was Win 8, OMG. 

 

https://www.tenforums.com/chillout-room/158200-show-us-your-desktop-10-a.html

 

And Linux--what a rich field with all the different DEs:

 

https://reddit.com/r/unixporn/  

 

 

[KannikaP]

29 minutes ago, BigStar said:

Per this example, distinctive icons enable faster location of particular folders or programs.

If the user is organised, then he/she should know where all the folders are. I cringe when I see You Tubers and business presentations where all the desktop icons are pushed to the left of the screen, which just shows that they cannot be bothered to organise them properly. I like your comment that you have no icons on your desktop, I too have none apart from My PC at top left, Control Panel bottom left and Recycle Bin at bottom right. It looks good....to me. Other regularly used icons are on my task bar. I don't need a VLC icon as my music and movies automatically open it when I start a song or movie.

And to go one step further, I have moved all my Library Folders ie Music, Documents, Videos, etc etc to my One Drive Folder on a separate SSD, so I know exactly where everything is, and it is automatically backed up, AND available from my other PC or phone. I am not storing anything twice eg. in C:/users/.

[BigStar]

4 hours ago, KannikaP said:

If the user is organised, then he/she should know where all the folders are.

All my 185,000 folders? That's (cough) quite a lot of organization, no?????

 

4 hours ago, KannikaP said:

I like your comment that you have no icons on your desktop, I too have none apart from My PC at top left, Control Panel bottom left and Recycle Bin at bottom right. It looks good....to me.

Commendable.???? Noobs: quickly delete most of that desktop icon pollution here: c:\Users\[USERNAME]\Desktop\ and c:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\ and c:\Users\Public\Desktop\.

 

Open Shell has the flyout Control Panel, quite convenient, and of course This PC. 

 

4 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Other regularly used icons are on my task bar. I don't need a VLC icon as my music and movies automatically open it when I start a song or movie.

 

And to go one step further, I have moved all my Library Folders ie Music, Documents, Videos, etc etc to my One Drive Folder on a separate SSD, so I know exactly where everything is, and it is automatically backed up, AND available from my other PC or phone. I am not storing anything twice eg. in C:/users/.

 

Occasionally one wants to open VLC or other media player separately to play or create a playlist, or change its configuration. VLC can do a few other things besides play a file.

 

Yeah I've moved my Library folders similarly and a ton of lesser used portable apps to my data disk.

 

Now to win applause here for your mastery of advanced technology, you should just use the native Win 10 Start menu to organize everything. Here ya go, meet a Master:

 

 

Yep, can be done, I agree.????

 

I have a real life, however, so I can get to most things quickly via categories on a tabbed launchbar; the Win taskbar wouldn't cut it, though for near-instant access I do have a couple of dropdown menus there created via Free Launch Bar. Otherwise I use Total Commander for all the file management and have pinned tabs and toolbar icons there. Customized icons.???? I have Everything always running to find everything else.

 

 

 

[KannikaP]

5 minutes ago, BigStar said:

All my 185,000 folders? That's (cough) quite a lot of organization, no?????

 

Commendable.???? Noobs: quickly delete most of that desktop icon pollution here: c:\Users\[USERNAME]\Desktop\ and c:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\ and c:\Users\Public\Desktop\.

 

Open Shell has the flyout Control Panel, quite convenient, and of course This PC. 

 

 

Occasionally one wants to open VLC or other media player separately to play or create a playlist, or change its configuration. VLC can do a few other things besides play a file.

 

Yeah I've moved my Library folders similarly and a ton of lesser used portable apps to my data disk.

 

Now to win applause here for your mastery of advanced technology, you should just use the native Win 10 Start menu to organize everything. Here ya go, meet a Master:

 

 

Yep, can be done, I agree.????

 

I have a real life, however, so I can get to most things quickly via categories on a tabbed launchbar; the Win taskbar wouldn't cut it, though for near-instant access I do have a couple of dropdown menus there created via Free Launch Bar. Otherwise I use Total Commander for all the file management and have pinned tabs and toolbar icons there. Customized icons.???? I have Everything always running to find everything else.

 

 

 

But now your Start Menu looks just like a cluttered desktop. 

[BigStar]

2 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

But now your Start Menu looks just like a cluttered desktop. 

Agreed. ???? Our "just use the native Start menu for everything" experts should realize the full implications of what that really means.

[Daffy D]

A Sample of my "Keep Programs" disk:-

 

 

Not very exiting but it suits me just fine 

[OneMoreFarang]

On 11/4/2020 at 7:07 AM, fangless said:

Why not just use the "change Icon" function in folder properties?

And I think that function exists already since over 30 years and Windows 3...

[KhunHeineken]

On 11/3/2020 at 4:47 PM, BigStar said:

BTW, for those of you who DARE, you cavemen, to change the Win 10 start menu back to something more convenient, there's an update to Open Shell now that gets its automatic updating feature working well.

Thanks for this information. I am a happy caveman with Open Shell.  ???? 

 

I will bump my thread about making Windows 10 look like Windows 7 with this information.

 

I have just updated to the latest version, 4.4.162, but I don't see any check box for installing updates automatically.  

 

 

My message to Microsoft is, "If I liked tiles, I would have been a tiler."  KH