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How-To Geek is where you turn when you want experts to explain technology. Since we launched in , our articles have been read more than 1 billion times. How do you do it? Windows Vista maintains the ability to change the icons of individual short-cuts and folders though in very inconsistent ways. The best, easiest, and to my knowledge only way to change Windows Vista icons all at once is with Stardock IconPackager.

With it, users can change individual icons or change all their icons at once by applying a "package" of icons to their Windows Vista system. IconPackager even supports the new "live" folder previews.

IconPackager adds a context menu called "change icon" for most types of files that looks like this:. Changing individual icons with IconPackager installed. Once IconPackager is installed, this functionality is natively added to Windows Vista. It's totally seamless. Any icon that doesn't have a x image gets a smaller version that doesn't look as good as it could.

One issue on Windows Vista is how icons are displayed. Most icons are 32x32 pixels in size. Some programs have a higher resolution 48x48 version. But on Windows Vista, unless there's a x version, the lower resolution version is displayed in it native size which can look strange especially on your desktop. NOTE: If you want to change the icon of the drive on which Windows Vista is installed then you will need to run the program as Administrator.

You will need to restart your computer for the changes to take effect. Both of these files are set to hidden. Here is how it looks after you have customized your drives with the icons of your choice.

Last but not the least, you are free to distribute and use this application. As usual I have tested this application on Windows Vista only.