Windows 10: Changing Windows Store Apps icons

Hey folks,

anybody knows, if it is currently possible to change the icons of the Apps from the Windows Store in the Windows Start Menu? Not talking about the ordinary shortcuts in the Start menu folders..

Maybe some tool like ResHacker exists?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards

Jan

:)

 

Why suddenly all Windows Store apps in the search results have the Photo Gallery Icon

All of a sudden, as of recently, all the Windows Store apps that come up in the Start Menu search results have the Photo Gallery icon rather than the app's icon. Is this a bug or a change to the Store or windows 10?

The app's icon still appears in the start menu and taskbar. Also, non Windows Store apps aren't affected.

 

Desktop Icons

What type of desktop icons are you trying to change? Are these Windows Store apps?

What happens when you try to change an icon?

Have an icon for Photos on the desktop and Paint.net and I can right click either

Click Properties

Click Change icon then choose an available icon

 

Am I allowed to bump in here? *Busted

Edit:
Furthermore, I'd like to change the names of the Apps - although I am aware that this is probably just wishful thinking...

 

I think what you're asking isn't possible- and it it were, it would be undesirable, given that apps are frequently updated. Thus changes would be overwritten.

As it also goes against MS's apparent policy to try to establish a uniform interface across a range of devices, it's not likely they'd make such a thing easy.

What you could do is create a shortcut to an app, then change the name of the shortcut.
Then you could put all those renamed shortcuts in a folder....

But the existing shortcuts in the Win 10 start menu would not be changed.






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Thanks for your reply and sorry for violating rules. Will stick to them in the future *Tongue

Still, I'm not going to give up on it. If I find a solution, I will update this post.