Personalize your Win8 desktop icons

Windows Desktop is every day we start the computer to face the screen, computers, networks, recycling stations, folders, these icons are familiar with the familiar, the number of years unchanged, I am afraid already aesthetic fatigue, can there be any way to change these several icons? The answer is yes, But perhaps most of the changes still stay in the system default or the system provided by the fixed icon, this change will let us not know, so we may wish to the desktop icon personality in the end, to create a completely belong to their own desktop.

This article we still take the latest Windows 8 system as an example to modify the desktop icon method, the steps are similar, but in order to create their own desktop icons, we need to prepare at least some of our favorite icons, to replace the system default icon.

A bit of prep work

The format of the picture must be. ico format, not our common. jpg, or PNG format, picture size size 128x128. We can download this format from a number of Web sites to save on the local computer, or have their favorite non. ico format pictures, through proprietary software or network online conversion to the. ico format can also.

▲ Online conversion picture is. ico format

▲ Web downloads. ico format pictures

Modify Win8 Desktop Icon

First say some basic modification method, after all, after installing the WIN8 system, we see only the recycling station on the desktop icon, very clean, also very lonely is it, which makes many beginners do not know how to open the "computer" and so on, a bit out of the way.

▲ Common Desktop icons

Add or remove Win8 desktop icons

Some people like to put all the icons and files on the desktop, some people like the desktop clear refreshing cool Nothing, other documents I do not say that the system on the desktop of the several common icons, "Computer", "Network", "Recycle Bin." For most people, these icons are often used.

In the desktop space, the right mouse click, pop-up menu select "Personalized", in the Open dialog box, select the left "Change desktop Icon" click Open.

▲ right mouse button on the Desktop pop-up menu, select Personalized

▲ Click "Change Desktop Icon"

In the following figure, this dialog box is the Desktop icon option that we need to check which one will be displayed on the desktop.

▲ Select Desktop Icon

For example, to modify the "computer" icon, see the picture, click the "Change icon."

▲ Select a favorite icon here to determine

After that we can modify the network, Recycle Bin, etc., but obviously these systems provide the icon is not personalized, really replace, only look at the icon, you may not recognize it. So, to change on the thorough, exclusive own!

Make Win8 desktop icons more personalized

Of course, we will not be satisfied with the system's own icons, so we need to set up a unique desktop icon! or in the Change Icon dialog box, we see that the dialog box under "Find icons in this file" is a selectable state, which means that we can set our own icon by browsing!

Do you remember the. ico icon we prepared above? Remember where they were kept? Click "Browse" to find your favorite icon OK!

▲ Choose your own desktop icon

or according to the method described above, modify the computer, file, network, and Recycle Bin icon in turn, and determine the application, then return to the desktop to see if your system desktop icon is different, unique?

▲ Personalized Desktop icons

This method is not only used for Windows 8 system, XP, Windows 7 can also be modified, but the set up some of the dialog boxes slightly different, but we can extrapolate, the desktop to create a unique super personalization is not difficult!