How To Change Folder Icon ?
It is very difficult to find any specific file or folder if you have too much of data stored in your laptop or PC. The way to overcome this problem is to change icon of folder so that you can easily get eye on what you want to find. In this article I have explained how to change the icon of any specific folder.
Both Windows and Mac provides few inbuilt icons but if you want to make your own image as a icon than you must first convert it into the smaller images with formats .ico or .png by any photo editing software. You can also download the icons from the web and set it as a icon for your desired folders.
Best Sites To Download Icons –
Below given steps are the easiest way to change icons of any folder whether you are using Mac or Windows.
Steps To Change Folder Icon In Windows
Step – 1
Create Folder – Right Click at the place where you want to create Folder and Select ‘New Folder’ in ‘New’ or press ” Ctrl + Shift + N ” it will create folder and than give desired name to your folder.
Create Folder ( Ctrl + Shift + N )
Step – 2
Open Folder Properties – Right Click on Folder and Select Properties.
Open Properties Of Folder
Step – 3
Open Customize Tab in Properties – In Folder Properties Open Customize Tab and in that you will see Change Icon button.
Open Customize Tab in Folder Properties
Step – 4
Change Folder Icon – Click on Change Icon button and you will see inbuilt icons of windows select which you like and click on ok. If you want to select your own picture as a Icon than Click on Browse and Select Image and Click Ok.
Select Icon For Your Folder
Folder With Changed Icon
Step – 5
Click on Save and you will see your folder with changed icon.
Steps To Change Folder Icon In Mac
Step – 1
Find Folder To Change Icon – First of all to change folder icon in Mac find the folder of which you want to change the icon. If your folder is in the dock than you need to find it in the finder.
Find Folder in Finder and If it is in dock than find that folder in finder app
Step – 2
Right Click on Folder and open Get Info – In finder right click on the folder and select Get Info in that. It will show you all information about that folder including its Icon. If your app is on dock than right click that app and in options select show in finder and in finder you can apply same procedure as I said earlier.
Right Click On Your Folder and Select Get Info
Step – 3
Get Your New Icon – You can search for your icon in Google and even download icons from sites given in starting of this article. Of-course icon size must be small ( 100 x 100 pixels ) and of .png format.
Get your icon from internet of small size and with png format
Step – 4
Save That Icon and Copy it – Now to Change Folder Icon on Mac Copy your new icon to any folder or desktop than open that image and in edit select image ( Command + A ) and Copy It ( Command + C ).
Select Icon in edit and Copy ( Command + C ) your icon
Step – 5
Paste Your Icon in Get Info Of Your Folder To Change Folder Icon – Get back to your Get Info of your folder and click on the icon of the folder until colour line appears around it than paste ( Command + V )that copied image from edit option.
Paste ( Command + V ) your icon which was copied earlier in Get Info Of Your Folder
That’s it Close the information window and you will see that icon of the folder is changed.
In this way you can change folder icon on both Mac and Windows. If you face any problems doing this feel free to ask me in comments.
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