Microsoft continues their work on updating icons for built-in Windows 10 apps. A set of new icons has been revealed that features the updated icon appearance for Microsoft Photos app and Planner following the modern Fluent Design.
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More New Windows 10 Icons: File Explorer, Groove Music, Solitaire
Microsoft continues their work on updating icons for built-in Windows 10 apps. A set of new icons has been revealed that features the updated icon appearance for File Explorer, Groove, and Solitaire following the modern Fluent Design.
Movies & TV and Weather Apps Receive New Colorful Icons
Microsoft continues to update icons for the built-in apps. Movies & TV and Weather is receiving brand new colorful icons, following Camera, Mail, Calendar, Snip & Sketch, and Microsoft Office.
Extract Icon from EXE or DLL File in Windows 10
How to Extract an Icon from an EXE or DLL File in Windows 10
In this post, we will review a few tools that allow extracting icons from files in Windows 10. Windows allows using icons hardcoded to binary files like DLL and EXE for Desktop shortcut icons, but doesn't come with any option to extract those icons and save as ICO or PNG files. Here's how it can be done.
Windows 10 Camera, Calendar, Mail, and Snip & Sketch Receive New Icons
The built-in Camera app in Windows 10 receives a brand new icon. This update is another step in direction Microsoft took with their intention to create a set of new icons for all platforms.
Download File Explorer Icon from Windows 10 Build 18298
File Explorer is the default file management application which comes bundled with every modern version of Windows. It allows the user to perform all basic file operations like copy, move, delete, rename and so on. Windows 10 Build 18298 introduces a new File Explorer icon.
How to Change Folder Icon in Windows 10
In modern Windows versions, you can assign a custom icon to a folder stored on your drive. In this article we will see how it can be done using File Explorer in Windows 10.
Prevent Windows 10 themes from changing icons
Some of the themes you download for Windows 10 may come with extra icons, sounds and mouse cursors. In the previous article, we saw how to prevent themes from changing your mouse cursors. Now, let's see how to do the same for icons.
The evolution of the File Explorer icon in Windows 10
File Explorer is the default file management application which comes bundled with every modern version of Windows. It allows the user to perform all basic file operations like copy, move, delete, rename and so on. During the development of Windows 10, Microsoft was updating folders icons, control panel icons and system app icons several times. Here is how the File Explorer icon was changed during Windows 10 development.
Speed up your Windows 10 by having fewer Desktop icons
There are a number of ways to speed up Windows so it performs optimally. One of the lesser known facts but which should be obvious to anyone and which I think should be made more clear to end users by Microsoft is that having many icons on the desktop slows down your logon and affect overall Explorer.exe performance. When the Windows operating system is starting, it might take a long time to load your user profile, showing the Welcome screen till then. Or after logging in, the performance might be sluggish. Did you know that slow logon can be caused by simply having too many desktop icons and shortcuts to apps on the desktop?
