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

Those who are tired of looking at the same icons on their computer can easily replace them with others. It's easy to make your computer more expressive and interesting.

There are many thematic resources and additional programs for this.

How to choose an icon set

To successfully change the design of icons, it is better to adhere to certain rules:

1. New icons must match the OS theme.
2. The informational function of icons is more important than the decorative one; they should not be clumsy and difficult to read.
3. When choosing a set of icons, you need to pay attention to their quality. Poorly made icons not only do not decorate the system, but also spoil the appearance.
4. In pursuit of style, one should not forget about practicality.

Where to download icon sets

The network is replete with various resources with “embellishments” of operating systems. Among them there are many low-quality craft sites that are embedded in search results.

Here are a few resources that provide quality free content:

7themes.su

A good thematic resource that allows you to download icons for free. In addition to icons, you can find many other free decorations for the operating system.

The collection of icons is constantly updated and undergoes strict selection for quality.

Oformi.net

Another good specialized resource. The selection is somewhat smaller, but there are unique options developed specifically for this site.

Along with icons, you can download cursors or even entire themes.

Westyle.ru

Relatively small collection of icons. But this is compensated by the originality of the materials provided. More than 60% of the icons provided were not found on other sites.

How to download icons for windows 7

Important! The system extension for icon files is ICO. Therefore, you need to download icons for Windows 7 in ico format. To use packages in PNG format, you will need to convert them, which will take additional time.

Let's look at downloading using 7themes.su as an example. First you need to find your favorite collection of icons in the catalog.

Then go to its page and click the “Yandex.Disk” button in the “Download file” block. To download from cloud storage, you will need to go through a simple registration process.

In terms of time, this is faster than waiting on a file hosting service.

Before downloading, you need to check the file format. In the “Info” block, in the “Format” column, ICO should be indicated.

Often the package includes a set of icons in PNG and a special IP file for the IconPackeger program, about which more later.

On the Yandex.Disk page you will also need to click the “Download” button.

Now the archive with icons has been saved. It is enough to unpack its contents into a separate directory and you can begin installation.

How to install icons

Icons can be assigned either separately for each object or for the entire OS. In the first case, system tools are used.

In the second - IconPackeger software (a free thirty-day version is available).

Adding an icon to a single object

Let's look at applying an icon to one object using the example of a created folder. To do this, you need to right-click on the required folder. Select “Properties” from the menu.

In the object parameters form, you will need to select the “Settings” tab, in which there will be a “Change icon...” button.

A guide to system icons will open. In its window you need a “Browse” button.

Clicking on it will open a standard explorer, where you need to set the path to the icons, and then select one of them and use the “Open” button.

The Icon Explorer will show the selected icon. In its window you will need to click “OK”.

Then, in the options window, click “Apply” and the folder icon will be changed.

This method is applicable to other folders and any files.

Important! System icons (My Computer, Recycle Bin, etc.) cannot be changed this way. The program described below will help you make them different.

Changing all icons using IconPackeger

The downloaded program will need to be installed. Then launch using the item in the Start menu. Before directly launching the program, a window will appear asking you to purchase a subscription.

In it you need to click the green “Continue” button.

After this, the program window will open. New icons can be selected from the carousel at the bottom of the window.

To use downloaded icons (file with .ip extension), you will need to click “Add icon package”. In the drop-down list, select “Install from disk”.

This will open File Explorer where you need to provide the file path and then click Open. After which the program will load the collection and show a preview of the icons.

Many people know what icons are, because they appeared a long time ago back in the 90s. Interestingly, it was not Windows developers who were the first to use icons, but 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 Windows operating system and the Internet, a huge number of all kinds of icons 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. Icons are also of great importance now for web programmers; they use them to create various website elements. Web designers use icons and special programs to 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

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 an empty space and select properties in the menu that appears;
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 appeared 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 all! Now all files of a certain type have changed their icon!

P.S. Please, if you don’t know, then do not touch anything else in the file type, otherwise you may make this file type stop opening 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 all! 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 all! The icon for our shortcut is whatever is convenient for you!