See this article for more details: How to properly restart the Explorer shell in Windows. Press and hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift keys on your keyboard and click the "Cancel" button. The "Shut Down Windows" dialog will appear. Exit explorer properly: Select anything on your Desktop, e.g.your folder icons will look blank, incorrect or will not change. That's it! The result will be as follows (I installed the icons in Windows 7):Ī note for Windows XP users: you might face an issue that the icon cache gets corrupted, i.e. Alternatively, instead of restarting Explorer.exe, you can log off and log back in to your Windows user account. Close all Explorer windows and restart Explorer.Double click the C:\Icons\INSTALL.REG file to apply the new icons to all folders.Extract the icons folder to your C: drive so the path you get is C:\Icons.
I have prepared ready-to-use Registry files for you, which you can import into your OS to easily switch to the new Windows 10 folder icons. Today we will use the same trick as mentioned in that article. In past, I wrote how to set different icons for an open and closed folder in Explorer.
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