Mac users love to customize the look and feel of OS X, and one of the easiest ways to do it is by using custom icons for your apps and utilities. Special Deal: 78% Off the Universal Waterproof. Take note this will work with any drive that connects to your computer via USB, including flash/thumb drives, external hard drives, etc. How-To Assign a Custom Icon to Your USB Drive Find an icon (.ico) file that you want to use for your drive.
Hello, The redesigned Windows 10 taskbar displays Icons somewhat smaller than Win7 & 8. The problem is that I can't find any guidelines on what sizes should be contained in an Icon file to optimize them for Windows 10.
Searching on MSDN gave me mainly instructions for the 'new' icons in Vista, and I even came across an article from 1995 (not sure if it was BC or AD, but definitly not relevant anymore). My current icon files contains sizes:16.16,32.32,64.64, and this looks perfect in the Taskbar of Windows 7 and 8. Does anybody know which size to add for Windows 10 Taskbar? Hi Mini, I am currently battling the taskbar to get crisp and clean icons on Windows 10 too.and I'm quite disappointed so far. If your program isn't pinned, the taskbar use the large icon (WNDCLASSEX.hIcon) of your application's window and stretches it to 24×24 (at 100% zoom). If you create clean 24×24 icon for your application and initialize the window class with it (something like: wndClass.hIcon = (HICON) LoadImage (hInstance., IMAGEICON, 24, 24, LRDEFAULTCOLOR) then it will look nice and clear on Windows 10 taskbar. Until you pin the program.
Then it will always load 32×32 icon from the first icon resources of your executable and downscales it to 24×24 even if you have properly created 24×24 icon there. Unfortunately there is no API to retrieve taskbar icon size, so testing OS version is necessary.
For it to work, you will need to declare you program compatible by adding Windows 10 GUID to its manifest. Also note that for various magnifications (125% and 150%) you will need 30×30 and 36×36 icons, not 32×32. Hi Mini, I am currently battling the taskbar to get crisp and clean icons on Windows 10 too.and I'm quite disappointed so far. If your program isn't pinned, the taskbar use the large icon (WNDCLASSEX.hIcon) of your application's window and stretches it to 24×24 (at 100% zoom). If you create clean 24×24 icon for your application and initialize the window class with it (something like: wndClass.hIcon = (HICON) LoadImage (hInstance., IMAGEICON, 24, 24, LRDEFAULTCOLOR) then it will look nice and clear on Windows 10 taskbar. Until you pin the program. Then it will always load 32×32 icon from the first icon resources of your executable and downscales it to 24×24 even if you have properly created 24×24 icon there.
Unfortunately there is no API to retrieve taskbar icon size, so testing OS version is necessary. For it to work, you will need to declare you program compatible by adding Windows 10 GUID to its manifest. Also note that for various magnifications (125% and 150%) you will need 30×30 and 36×36 icons, not 32×32.
Hi Guys need help OS Windows 10 Windows anniversary version updated so the problem is with folder ico customisation it is not staying permanently first i downloads a regular ico file from online source then i uses this method to change the folder icon, it worked before but not working now my pc has 2 drives and Drive 1 - OS C SSD i'm getting the below result the folder is test and able to get the work done but whenever i move this folder to any other drive like 2nd HDD drive or pendrive getting this any solution? Tried it in another laptop i have and works in it when this created in that device but when i copied it and tries to move it in pc same thing happening seems like some setting error but can't figure out any help will be appreciated. Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: 2-Custom Computers, ASUS Desktop, Dell Inspiron 580 Desktop + Dell Inspiron 15R Notebooks 2 + more OS: Win10 Home and Pro, Win10 Insider Preview, WinXP Home Premium, Linux Mint CPU: AMD and Intel Motherboard: ASUS, GigaByte, others Memory: 16GB in ASUS, max.
4GB or 8GB in all others Graphics Card: AMD ATI Radeon or Onboard, ASUS with nVidia GT-710 Sound Card: Onboard Monitor(s) Displays: HP 21.5' Touchscreen, ASUS 27' 4-input Screen Resolution: Usually 1440x900 Mouse: Microsoft Optical Mouse, Wireless and Bluetooth mice with Notebooks Hard Drives: Various internal HDDs and USB HDDs plus 2 x 2TB NAS drives connected to Router. Internet Speed: 5Mbps Browser: Internet Explorer 11, Firefox and SeaMonkey, Edge when absolutely necessary Antivirus: Windows Defender Other Info: Also running Linux Mint on a Desktop and a Notebook. HP Laserjet and HP Officejet printers connected to Router.
When you set a custom folder, basically what you do is giving to the folder a path which redirects Explorer.exe to search for an icon on that path. It may not work, for example, if the file you set as icon gets moved. Sometimes you will still see it with your custom icon but that's just because of luck and 'Icon Cache'.
Since it's a path, if you set as icon inside let's say an usb device an image in your computer, of course when you open that usb device in another computer you will NOT see the custom icon UNLESS that computer has an icon file with the exact same name and in the exact same path. In order to solve this you can set as folder icon an image which is in the same device. Then when you put that usb in another computer, it will look for the icon inside the usb device itself. The video you linked makes you do exactly this: you set as folder image an image inside the folder itself, and thus having this folder in any computer will make it show up with custom folder. Then the only errors i could think about is that you deleted the image, or the iconset you used does not have an image for the icon size selected in the computer you're failing. Try to increase/decrease icons size in that computer and see if your icon is showing up.
The best would be having an ico with all the common sizes: 256, 124, 96, 72, 64, 48, 40(which is usualy forgotten), 32, 24. Also do not 'create desktop.ini' as the tutorial say, because you will make a chaos with already existing desktop.ini informations. Insted from the folder, visualization menu, click on options. Get to the 'visualization' tab, and uncheck 'hide protected system files'. Save changes. Then you will see a desktop.ini already does exist inside the folder. Open it and modify it as you saw in youtube's tutorial.
The go back to options, check again 'hide protected system files' and you're done. Do NOT in any case leave 'hide protected system files' unchecked, cause you can accidentally touch things that shouldn't be touched. Uncheck it only when you need, then check it again. For your own safety. When you set a custom folder, basically what you do is giving to the folder a path which redirects Explorer.exe to search for an icon on that path.
It may not work, for example, if the file you set as icon gets moved. Sometimes you will still see it with your custom icon but that's just because of luck and 'Icon Cache'. Since it's a path, if you set as icon inside let's say an usb device an image in your computer, of course when you open that usb device in another computer you will NOT see the custom icon UNLESS that computer has an icon file with the exact same name and in the exact same path. In order to solve this you can set as folder icon an image which is in the same device. Then when you put that usb in another computer, it will look for the icon inside the usb device itself. The video you linked makes you do exactly this: you set as folder image an image inside the folder itself, and thus having this folder in any computer will make it show up with custom folder. Then the only errors i could think about is that you deleted the image, or the iconset you used does not have an image for the icon size selected in the computer you're failing.
Try to increase/decrease icons size in that computer and see if your icon is showing up. The best would be having an ico with all the common sizes: 256, 124, 96, 72, 64, 48, 40(which is usualy forgotten), 32, 24. Also do not 'create desktop.ini' as the tutorial say, because you will make a chaos with already existing desktop.ini informations. Insted from the folder, visualization menu, click on options. Get to the 'visualization' tab, and uncheck 'hide protected system files'.
Save changes. Then you will see a desktop.ini already does exist inside the folder. Open it and modify it as you saw in youtube's tutorial. The go back to options, check again 'hide protected system files' and you're done. Do NOT in any case leave 'hide protected system files' unchecked, cause you can accidentally touch things that shouldn't be touched.
Uncheck it only when you need, then check it again. For your own safety. Thanks will try with different sizes.
Try testing the usb in another computer with different systems like Windows XP/7/8.1. Check if it doesn't work in all the system or if it's a strictly Windows 10 problem. (you can check it also virtualizing theese systems via Virtual Box). Also can you post here a copy/paste of your desktop.ini? Another doubt i had, is the desktop.ini you're using inside the usb main folder or it's inside the folder you want to change?well thanks for the heads up looks like it's a problem with windows 10 anniversary update currently facing problem with audio too rolling back to normal win 10 to be safe for now.