Windows 10 is an operating system that gives us many customization options. This is something that users like very much and that they want to take advantage of in many ways. Typically, system applications have their own icons. Even if we want to, we can use others, turning an image into an icon on the PC. Although many people do not know how this is done.
This is why we will show you how to get it below. So that you can turn any image into an icon that you can use on your Windows 10 computer. It is an additional way to be able to customize the use of the operating system in a simple way.
This is something we can use if we have changed the wallpaper, and we long to have icons that work well in that regard. So have a much more personalized appearance on our Windows 10 computer. Best of all, being able to do this is really simple, it only takes a few steps to do it.
Obviously, there are a number of aspects that must be met. The image in question must be in PNG format.. At the same time, it should show the silhouette or figure that we want to use in this icon, without having any background. We use the PNG format because it gives us a transparent background, which we can use to have only said silhouette. You can Google photos in that format to make it easier.
When we’ve found the one we long for we must convert this file to BMP format. This is a necessary step in Windows 10 to be able to use the image as an icon. Otherwise, the system will not be able to read it. When it is already converted, we must change said file duration to .ico, something that we can do by editing the name of said file in a simple way. We have to do this step going from BMP to ico. We cannot do it from PNG to ico, otherwise it will not work.
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Thus we have already said image in the desired format that we are going to use in Windows 10. Then it is ready to be used as an icon in the application that we want in a very comfortable way. We have just a few steps below, which you will see are truly easy to complete.
Change an app icon
dog changing an app icon in Windows 10 is not complicated. All users can do it whenever they want. We just have to follow a couple of simple steps on the computer and then this change will be official. What do we have to do about it?
The first thing we will do is click on the application in question whose icon we want to change. Typically, this icon is on the computer desktop. For what we do right click on the icon of this app. Then a context menu opens with various options. The one that interests us, therefore the one that we enter, is the property option.
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When we are inside the properties, we have to look for the customize tab. Within this tab we go to the chapter called Folder icons and we have to click the button that says «Change Icon». Today a window will open in which we must search for said file in .ico format that we want to use as an icon in this application. Once found, we just have to click on accept.
Afterwards, the change will be made automatically on the computer. So when we go back to the Windows 10 desktop, we can see that said photo has already become the icon of the application in question that we wanted to use. We can repeat this procedure with all the applications we want on the PC. Thus, we customize Windows 10 a little more to our liking.
