Questions tagged [desktop-icons]
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Change Shared Drive icon in Windows 10 with Registry setting
I want to make my desktop look a little more to my liking, and that includes changing some of the icons. One of the icons I want to change is the shared drive icon:
I want to do this using the ...
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Hide user folders in Windows explorer
They are back! After a recent (June/2024) update these undesired links to folders are back. I have tried all methods of removing them to no avail. And now there's a link to Gallery on the Drives panel ...
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Can I remove the icon from the taskbar? [closed]
To make it more understandable, this is the "desktop" panel. Panels - desktop - show signatures (removed), show the title (removed). And the profile icon remains. Partially, I decided this, ...
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All shortcut desktop icons are blank
I'm using W11 and all my desktop icons are blank. The taskbar icons show perfectly. Manually changing the desktop icons temporarily shows the icons as changed in the folder, but upon closing the ...
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Windows 11 Taskbar Icon Not Match File Icon
The EXE file '360 DFV STITCHER xxx.exe' was created using Pyinstaller. The Taskbar shows the GUI LOGO icon 'logo.png' and the EXE file shows the icon '360_stitcher.ico'.
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Windows: Is it possible to set .ini files and .xml files to have different icons?
(Windows 11) I am working with quite a lot of .xml files as well as other text files so I thought it would be good to change the icon for .xml files so that they stood out.
When I changed the .xml ...
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Windows 11 desktop icons moving
From time to time the desktop icons are changing their position (today it happened twice 😔 ) . Unfortunately, can't find the root cause for this.
How to solve the issue?
My mom is upset because of ...
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One drive cycling status icons on desktop
I have an intermittent issue with OneDrive on Windows 11.
On my desktop, the OneDrive status icons (i.e. green-tick, red-cross) which show on top of file thumbnails start cycling through different ...
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LINUX cp -r with attributes (sepecially icon)
LINUX Mint 20.04 I need this for a script that already has worked in UBUNTU but doesn't anymore in Mint.
My problem: I have a directory for which I have changed the icon by simply right-clicking on it ...
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Windows 10 desktop, stack windows on the right instead of the left
When I switch between using my laptop on its own, using it with my office setup with one monitor, and using it at home with two monitors, it naturally loses track of where its open windows are, so ...
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How do I change icon text font in Windows 11?
E.g., I want to remove the shadow, make it bold and/or change the font to make it more visible.
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passing system variable inside another variable
My issue: I need to copy specific icons to user desktops that point to various engrg resources. These icons update somewhat regularly. My initial batch file was simply using robocopy to do this, and ...
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Desktop Icons rearranged when hiding Taskbar Windows 10
I recently noticed that when I toggled the taskbar visibility in Windows 10 that all my desktop icons are rearranged.
When restoring the visibility of the taskbar (unhiding it), the desktop icons are ...
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How do I remove the padding around the icons on my desktop so that they look normal?
Ever since upgrading to Windows 11, my desktop icons have an insane amount of spacing around them. It looks like my computer is somehow in some sort of tablet mode, but I can't find any setting to ...
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Even smaller Windows 11 desktop icons
Just after installation, desktop icons were quite small, way smaller than on Windows 10, and this suited me well.
Then having once clicked right button on desktop and choosing "View", I ...
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