About this tag
Discussions tagged with icon settings on WindowsForum.com cover a range of topics related to customizing and troubleshooting icons in Windows. Users seek help restoring missing settings icons, such as Cortana's settings icon that fails to respond. Others ask how to change file previews instead of default program icons, enable network tray icons similar to Windows XP, or modify folder icons to show more image previews like in Windows Vista. There are also requests for batch-changing folder icons back to defaults and adding Flip 3D to the context menu via registry tweaks. These threads reflect common user needs for icon-related configuration and troubleshooting across Windows 7, 8.1, and 11.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 25H2 Desktop: Clean UI, Spotlight, and Power-User Tweaks

    The Windows 11 Desktop in the 25H2 era is familiar territory with a careful polish: it behaves like Windows 10’s Desktop in the essentials, but Microsoft has refreshed iconography, simplified the right‑click context menus, added a daily Windows Spotlight wallpaper with a “Learn about this...
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    • News
    • contentdeliverymanager context menu desktop desktop icons enterprise explorerpatcher file explorer icon settings it pros onedrive personalization power users recycle bin registry show desktop spotlight themes windows 11 windows spotlight
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Windows News
  2. gogreen

    Windows 10 Registry Experts: Help me get Cortana settings back

    I'm hoping some registry experts here can help. I have lost my Cortana settings. When I click the settings icon (3rd from the top on the left), nothing happens. I may have become a bit overzealous in my attempts to disable Cortana, but now I have lost the options to turn it on and off. How do I...
    • gogreen
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    • app bugs configuration cortana desktop disable file comparison help icon settings laptop microsoft options registry restore settings troubleshooting user interface windows
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  3. ivanabq

    Windows 8 Graphics file previews instead of default program icon

    Running Win 8.1 (of course), I use Irfanview as my default graphics file viewer/editor. When I view a folder containing graphics files (large icon mode), the icon shown for each file is the Irfanview logo/icon. How do I make Windows show a preview of each file, instead?
    • ivanabq
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    • default programs file icons file preview folder view graphics icon settings irfanview photo viewer user interface windows 8.1
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
  4. A

    Windows 7 Windows 7 Wireless & Wired network Tray icons

    Is there a way to enable in Windows 7, system Icons for Wireless and Wired network adapters, like the ones in XP (where you can see if connected (blinking lights), or disconnected (red X)? :razz:
    • ahpitre
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    • adapter connectivity icon settings network network adapter system icons tray icons windows 7 wired connection wireless
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  5. Elmer

    Windows 7 Add Flip 3D to Context Menu

    To add Flip3D to the context menu when right clicking the desktop or the background of any opened Explorer window. Save the following code as a .reg file and merge into the registry:-Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\Flip 3D] @="Flip 3D"...
    • Elmer
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    • context menu customization desktop file explorer flip 3d icon settings menu merge registry registry shell commands tweaks user experience user interface windows 10 windows 11 windows settings
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Desktop Customization
  6. G

    Windows 7 Pictures Folder icons as per vista

    In Windows Vista in the Pictures Folder, folder icons show 4 of the images from within the folder. In Windows 7 there are only 2 shown and these are only partially visible. How can I get back the Vista version of showing 4 of the images on the folder icon ?
    • Gubby
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    • customization desktop experience file management folder icons icon settings image display pictures folder user interface windows 7 windows vista
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
  7. Ikona

    Windows 7 Change Folder Icons

    Ok,is there any way to select for example 100 folders and set to all of them a default folder icon instead of the muic icon i set to my folders ? Or do i have to do change it one by one ? those icons are not some downloaded or my creation,those are windows music icons,but now i want to have...
    • Ikona
    • Thread
    • batch change default icon file management folder icons icon settings icons music files user interface windows 11 windows features
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Desktop Customization