How to Create Custom Desktop Icons (It's Easier than you Think)

Have you ever wanted an icon of your company logo? Or of your pet, favorite favorite sports team, favorite celebrity, favorite car, movie, game or whatever? Well, creating your own custom Windows Desktop icons is so easy you can literally do it in just a few minutes! I recently learned of a website called ICOConvert that makes creating your own icons as easy as uploading an image and clicking a few buttons. In this video I show you how to create your own icons using your favorite image editing software (I use Adobe Photoshop Elements) and then how to upload your image to ICO Convert, download your new custom icon and apply it to files and folders you want to customize. I was shocked when I learned just how easy it is to make custom icons and am excited for you to see just how easy it is too. Thanks for watching. Enjoy! :)

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Time Stamps

0:00 - Intro
0:42 - I like my icons to have transparent backgrounds
1:11 - create a custom icon using your favorite image editing software
5:23 - applying your custom icon to a Folder
6:13 - applying your custom icon to a specific file type
6:36 - using FileTypesManager to apply custom icons to specific file types
8:23 - Thanks for Watching! Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe! :)

Music in this video -

"It's All Happening" by Huma-Huma from the YouTube Creator Studio Music Library

"Club" by Andrew Huang from the YouTube Creator Studio Music Library

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Wanna to skip to a particular part of the video? Use the time stamps below. :)

Time Stamps
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - I like my icons to have transparent backgrounds
1:11 - create a custom icon using your favorite image editing software
3:36 - using ICOConvert.com to turn your image into an .ico
5:23 - applying your custom icon to a Folder
6:13 - applying your custom icon to a specific file type
6:36 - using FileTypesManager to apply custom icons to specific file types
8:23 - Thanks for Watching! Like, Share, Comment & Subscribe! :)

[frnkb]

You are an absolute Godsend!! I was reorganizing my folders and wanted to personalize my icons to match the folder contents or at least give an idea of what the contents would be. Your clear and concise explanations along with your visuals were exactly what I needed to simplify my little project. Thank you for putting this guide together and for sharing it with everyone on YouTube!! You're an AWESOME teacher!!

[rudranilghosh]

Really well-researched video man. I've already searched through the whole internet and its only your video that helped

[xSLWRTHNUx]

Super easy to follow, even with no sound (I had to watch while muted). Thank you for showing the world this!

[heyIamzip]

I've been looking for a tutorial on how to customize my desktop icons, and this video really helps! ありがとうございました :)

[ln]

THANK YOU!!! this is super simple and a very good tutorial that anyone can understand, now i can have cute custom icons all i want :D

[sleepyghostproductions]

Thank you so much! This was a super clear and well paced video. I really appreciate the timestamps too!

[quinnalexandra]

Super easy and straight to the point, thanks man!

[EventHoriXZn]

Thank you for this video- like others in the comments I spent about an hour browsing through extremely unhelpful articles and this video was the only thing that made it clear on what I was doing wrong.

[wiewiorka_ojoj]

Nice, clear and helpful, thank you :)

[Sentineltruth]

Thank you for this awesome video! Worked like a charm!

[erykgadomski]

Thank you very much! Amazing tutorial worked the first time!

[vampyx]

dude this is litterally my new favorite thing, thankyou!!!

[AlexisRiveraD]

*Thank a lot, I was searching for this*

[kumargaming]

Thank you for this very useful information. I really liked how you explained things in your video.

[MrGold-]

I didn't need to do the thing with "FileTypesManager" but the rest was SUPER SUPER HELPFULL, thank you!

[jordanb]

I was trying to save my own ICO files and they looked pretty bad compared to the design I made. The website did all the hard work for me. Thanks!

[deepstateglobalgala]

Thanks for this awesome tutorial! Helped me out a bunch!

[Elliot]

Never thought I would need to do this but this is awesome

[GadonSpace]

Good video straight to the point. I wish all my teacher were like u.