Windows 10: This Is the New File Explorer Icon That Could Launch in Windows 10 RS

I actually worked in IT and as a project manager and if my business partner/customer wanted an ICON changed it would get done. I question if you really understand that MS has a department that works on graphics for their line of products and doing this would be part of their daily jobs. And the update to the OS would simply require moving a file. That's the beauty of one code source for the entire line of OS's.

 

Thanks.. I might change mine later on.

 

I think I like that one from build 10130 the best.

 

That's nice.. I really like the 14328 one the most.

 

Meh. Neither old, current nor new looks great, IMO. I rarely use WE (FreeCommander is the file manager I rely on). The Classic Shell menu is the only place the icon will appear and it's very small there, so it won't matter much what it looks like.

 

Um, just because somebody changed the file folder icon, doesn't mean somebody else isn't fixing bugs right? Microsoft do have more than one employee right? *Tongue

 

I sure hope so... If I could do things like that as a project manager than I think MS sure can. *Wink

 

To make your own File Explorer icon,install GIMP and then Google iconify2_1.scm, download it and place it in C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\gimp\2.0\scripts. Then either download a 256x256 pixel .png or create your own, and then choose ScriptFu>>Utils>>Iconify, then save as Name.ico. Done, you now have your icon.

 

Thanks Cliff.

 

You're welcome Jeff.
The File Explorer icon is one of the few system icons you can change and NOT get a false positive in sfc /scannow, because the path was changed. Many other system icons will give you an false positive, that only the user can fix, and not Windows, because you have changed the shortcut-icon path

 

Instead of wasting time on this sort of stuff, why don't they fix the Control Panel/Settings mess?

 

time was not wasted when somebody like it, they can do this while fixing bugs at the same time

 

Hi there

Thanks for info - but I'd much rather a nice cleaner interface with file explorer - the old interface has been around that it seems old even to my Grandad !!.

I believe in the old Air Force they'd say it's been around since "Pontius was a Pilot (Pilate)". !!

I prefer this type of clean uncluttered interface (this is Dolphin --the KDE file explorer in Linux). Has many settings but I prefer basic list and to be able to split in groups. I know there are 3rd party ones available for Windows - but here I'm just talking about the "Basic" stuff included with the OS.

You can also have multi displays in a single window etc etc -- but YMMV - I prefer a single clean uncluttered display.





There's also a built in file comparison and directory comparison (compare on names, dates, file size etc etc) - more useful than you might think - especially when moving / copying files between different HDD's etc.

For those wanting an "Icon making" program particularly @Cliff S and @BunnyJ

Last free version of icofx (works fine on W10) before it went (like a lot are doing these days) pay :

scroll down the list - it's about half way and select ICOFX.

Last Freeware version: DiskDigger, Amic Email Backup, Mystic Thumbs, IcoFX, phpDesigner, Xinorbis

Excellent icon making program.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Thanks @jimbo45*Thumbs

 

27 posts about one icon? Am I missing something? I looked at those pictures aimed to illustrate the differences between several iterations of icons and it was more effort to find them than I was willing to spare ...