Windows 10: How to change folder and drive icons

I recently happened upon a few of Brink's tutorials on how to change folder icons sys wide, and in This PC. They were so effective that I sent him a pm to thank him. But that also posed a few questions in my mind, and he thought they would be a good addition to the thread. So for anyone who has any experience with it, I'd love to know if anyone has been able to change the folder icons for sys folders in C:\ Program Files, Program Files (86), Users and Windows. I get that changing permissions can destabilize the system, but was thinking we should be able to change the icon without all of that happening. I would also be interested in knowing if anyone has managed to change the individual drive icons in This PC? Thanks for any input.

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I changed my location for 'Documents' and now Drive D has the 'Documents' icon

I've always changed the location of Documents and Downloads to my 'Data' partition. I just did a clean install of Windows 10 and changed Documents location to drive D. Usually the icon for these two folders follows and displays on drive D.

Not sure why it didn't this time, but can you tell me how I can change these 2 folder icons? I know how to change icons, but I don't see these 2 icons in the list of Windows icons.

Thx.

 

Folder Icons Changing in Windows 10

I had a similar issue in W8.1 but was able to correct it in the control panel. Now I'm experiencing

an issue when I view a folder and change the view from list to large icons, close the folder and come back to it at another time and the view has switched back to list. What can I do to keep the folders (all folders) in large icon view? It's probably a setting
I'm missing somewhere but I can't seem to find it.