New icons can make your desktop more attractive and easier to navigate. Here's how to change the look of the icons -- to any image. By Martin Appel. Contributor, PCWorld Mar 18, 2024 7:30 am PDT.

Reader Barry is running Windows 7 Professional. Out of the blue, his system started displaying generic icons for various files and folders. Thankfully, he was kind enough to include a screenshot ...

Creating custom Windows 11 desktop icons is quite straightforward, and changing your shortcuts can make your desktop experience feel more personal. The good news is it’s fairly easy to create ...

You can add icons to your desktop in Windows 10 and more easily access the system apps or folders you regularly use. Here's how to do it.

How to change your desktop icons on a Windows PC. Things get a bit trickier if you're using Windows. First of all, you can't individually change every desktop icon — you can only change folders, ...

Although the Windows 11 desktop only comes with the Recycle Bin icon, it's still possible to bring back all the legacy system icons to the desktop, including Computer, User's Files, Network, and ...

Futuramo’s History of Icons tour provokes nostalgia and contains some good historical screen shots, but we wish it had more detail on the context of the images. What it does accomplish is ...