Customize Your Desktop Icon

You want to customize your desktop icon?When you own something you want it to look just the way you want it. Like your Pc, before you buy it you choose among those hundreds of designs and configurations. In this part, customization takes place. I have here a simple way which you can perform to customize your pc without much effort at all. You'll learn how to customize desktop icons in 8 easy steps. Let’s get started.

Step – 1. Download any icons you want, there are tons of icons available for download on the Web. Your favorite search engine should provide a number of places to download icons. Some of my favorite sources include iconarchive, icondock, freeiconsweb.

Step – 2. Create folder for your icons. After downloading icons put it some place where you could leave them untouched and easy to find. I put mine on My Documents and named the folder icons. Decide what icons you want to change and what icon you would use to replace it.

Note that there are the standard icons (My Computer, My Documents, and the Recycle Bin, plus a folder called Miscellaneous, and two shortcuts.

Step – 3. Click Start, click Control Panel, click Appearance and Themes, and under Pick a task, click Change the desktop background.

Step – 4. On the Desktop tab of the Display Properties dialog box, click Customize Desktop.

Step – 5. In the Desktop Items dialog box, shown in figure 3, select the icon you want to change and click Change Icon. The Change Icon dialog box opens, which shows all icons in the currently selected file. In it, you can specify which icons are shown on the desktop by default. I selected the My Computer, My Documents, and Recycle Bin icons.

Step – 6. To select from icons not currently displayed, click Browse, and in the Change Icon dialog box, navigate to the icons you downloaded, select the icon you want to use, click Open, and then click OK

Step – 7. In the Desktop Items dialog box, select the next icon you want to change and repeat steps 3–4.

Step – 8. When you're finished changing the icons listed here, click OK, and in the Desktop Properties dialog box, click OK to apply the changes.

Additional tips

Customize your desktop folder icon

Step – 1. Right-click the folder, and then click Properties.
Step – 2. On the Customize tab, click Change icon.
Step – 3. In the Change Icon dialog box, click Browse, navigate to the new icon you want to use, select it, and then click Open.
Step – 4. Click OK, and then click OK again to apply the change.

To customize a shortcut icon
Step – 1. Right-click the shortcut you want to customize, and then click Properties.
Step – 2. On the Shortcut tab, click Change Icon.
Step – 3. In the Change Icon dialog box, click Browse, navigate to the new icon you want to use, select it, and then click Open.
Step – 4. Click OK, and then OK again to apply the change.