Allow or Prevent Themes From Changing Desktop Icons in Windows 11/10
17Allow or Prevent Themes From Changing Desktop Icons in Windows 11/10.
The Windows operating system offers you great liberty in customizing its user interface. Users like to change themes, windows colors, icons, mouse pointers, desktop wallpapers and even tweak the Windows Registry or hack system files to give it and its built-in application a cool new look. One of the most popular customization options is changing the themes. Changing a theme in Windows 11/10/8/7 typically involves changing the desktop wallpaper, the window color and maybe sounds, mouse pointers, and icons. If you like your icon-set and wish to prevent the theme from changing your desktop icons, you can do so, by following this easy tutorial.
Windows includes the common This PC, User's Files, Network, Recycle Bin, and Control Panel shortcuts that you can add or remove as icons on your desktop.
You can also change the default icon used for This PC, User's Files, Network, and Recycle Bin everywhere in Windows to be any icon you want.
By default, themes are allowed to change the icon used for these desktop icons. If you changed the icon of any of these default icons to what you wanted, you may not want them to be changed whenever you change your theme.
Issues addressed in this tutorial:
changing icons on windows 10
changing icons on windows 11
changing icons in windows 10
changing taskbar icons windows 10
This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.