Custom Icons for Windows 11 Thread (Folders, Dropbox, Google Drive, Podcasts, NVME Drive, Steam, Adobe)

[TizianoMad]

 
You are welcome @3rd0f5

This note is also for members new to the thread.

to avoid duplicates :

As this thread's quite big, you need to take your time and pay attention when scrolling,
as there's a lot of content and information.
(you'll maybe notice a few posts are about the same things)

It is obvious that +50 pages so far doesn't make research easy for anyone, and adding many non-folders creation makes it worse.
This is why I opened a new separate thread for other icons than custom folders.
There are mainly System App icons, with all the extracted original ones.
(@atinfo, the "Image File Type" you need is maybe there).
You can also find General 3rd-party Icons/Logos.
A few Custom Sets have been made so far.

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Hi @Fenhl

Here are both color & type versions of Magic - The Gathering to please everyone.
Note that the "Title" ones include the "Logo Only" in their 16>32 formats.


            
            


Hope you like the Synology one.
I made an abbreviation of the title for the 16>32 formats.

      
    

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Hi @davidvkimball

Well, thanks a lot for this piece of news, I wasn't aware of that.

Edit: ah, I noticed that when the icons get smaller, they don't transform into their standalone icons like in native Windows anymore. Not bad for standardizing across the different kinds of folders I suppose, but I personally prefer vanilla Windows behavior (although would prefer custom standalone icons / sans-folder for the normal colored folders).

So you are telling you realized that since 22H2, icons are just basically converted from the 256 image and don't need the other sizes ??
(did I get it right ?) It doesn't sound very logic, as smaller formats are created to avoid bad quality (blurring small pixels).
Admitting Windows enhanced 11's design doesn't mean 4K screens automatically display it (!)
I just mean that icons, fonts or any objects are kept the same format, so unless MS uses a magical AI to convert any of them in real time, I don't see how quality can be ensured.

For instance, at the time I wasn't aware of different icon formats and their proper adaption, I still did realize that basic converted (custom) folder icons appeared a bit blurred and not as nice as original ones (EXCEPT yours).
Then, when I experimented using an icon that "only" has a 256 size, it looks MS handles a reasonable conversion quality down to 48.
Between 32 and 16, quality's awful (doesn't blur but pixelates a lot).

As I'm not using this latest OS yet, I indeed wish that the display will (partly enough) come back to common sense, as with Vanilla.

To make things clear to me with sizes, I made a "Pixel Indicator" folder a while ago. (forget quality, it's quick made).
This way, you are able to see exactly which ones are shown in any parts.


(up until 22H1, this is about how it went) :

Layout Sizes :

Depending on the edition used, how the system features are set (Task Bar size, pinned Start Menu* icon sizes...)
and the System scale itself (125% /even up to 500% !) :

Task Bar :  24 > 32
Star Menu :  32
Pinned icons in Start Menu :  20 & 40 / *24 & 48
Classic Shell Start Menu /All programs :  16
Desktop :  48
Explorer :  16 / 32 / 48 / 256
John Travolta is searching for :  64

You can have a try with this Size Indicator folders.
There are 2 different ones.

• Main : standard using 16 - 20 - 24 - 32 - 40 - 48 - 64 - 256
• Full : complete using extra 72 - 96 - 128

To be honest, I never saw the extra formats displayed anywhere, except when they are the only ones available in the ICO file.
So there's no point in creating these unless you are skipping higher sizes for special creations.
(for instance, @Thz's 7zip folders are in 256 - 96 - 32 - 16 only - which seems good enough for a nice display everywhere).


You can try with applying them as an ICO and DLL too.
(there can be slight differences how the system adapts them in some ways. I don't remember a lot, but I know DLL is better when a folder has to be renamed, not always need a restart to see correct size in some places...)

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Note :
Image displayed as an ICO file in explorer is NOT the final aspect, thought it is very close to (maybe except size 16).
You can notice the icon's in a very thin square layer, which makes it very slightly reduced. (some vertical or horizontal lines can occasionally be not sharp). Also, only 256 - 32 - 16 sizes show up.

 

 

[mowgliton]

W11-folder

 

[goodmorningfred]

Works great on my Windows 7 Pro Alienware laptop!

 

[davidvkimball]

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but found this huge collection of 11-like folder icons:

GitHub - icon11-community/Folder11: Windows 11-like custom directory icon.

Windows 11-like custom directory icon. Contribute to icon11-community/Folder11 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[Dark Knight]

Does anyone happen to have a .psd copy of the Windows 11 folder?
I had one , merged the layers without unmerging before closing PS , never made a backup .......

Thanks in advance!

 

[el_espaniol]

Hi People...!
Please, Any kind person to provide a working link of the Windows 11 Ultimate Icons Pack on MEGA ...????
Thanks beforehand for the valuable help...!​

 

[YuriPet]

Hi People...!
Please, Any kind person to provide a working link of the Windows 11 Ultimate Icons Pack on MEGA ...????
Thanks beforehand for the valuable help...!​

Maybe this: 356.47 MB folder on MEGA

 

[frd]

Just shoot whatever you think. As you can see, I love High res Icons. Just look at what I'm using it will give you a good idea.

I'm sure you have some great ideas!

As you can see here, these are my most used ones.

View attachment 3085

Cool icons !! Where I can find to download, please?

 

[kurmudgeon]

Awesome work everyone! One request: A Windows 11 drive icon with a user icon in the top left (instead of a windows icon in the top left).

 

[NEO701]

Hi All.
Great thread, thanks for all your contributions.
I am mostly using Folders from Folder11 and some others from the thread with the same style.

Only have a small request for "TV Shows" and "Music Videos" folders.
Thanks for any kind artist who will create both of them.

 

[NEO701]

Hi All.
Great thread, thanks for all your contributions.
I am mostly using Folders from Folder11 and some others from the thread with the same style.

Only have a small request for "TV Shows" and "Music Videos" folders.
Thanks for any kind artist who will create both of them.

Hi,
Any chance someone can provide this?
they are only 2 icons...
Thanks in advance.

 

[Thomas4]

How to Turn Any Image Into an Icon for Free

Custom Icons, the easy way.
The time spent is usually less than 30 seconds after installation. Honestly, the time spent explaining was longer than actually completing the process.

1. Download and install GIMP,

2. Make a directory to put all you icons, Mine is called simply "Icons".
NOTE: This only needs done if you're going to change a number of icons. If only changing a few don't bother and export the file into the directory itself.

3. Get image and open it.

4. Under FILE>Export As and go to "Select File Type (By Extension)" and choose "Microsoft Windows Icon" and place it either into the directory from Step 2. The warning message that appears can be safely ignored as it doesn't pertain in this instance.

5. Go into Properties in the directory you want to change the icon for and browse to the location where you placed the new icon and select "Apply"
Then follow the up by clicking either "Yes", "OK", or "Apply" as necessary to complete the process.

The new icon will appear in a few seconds after you've completed the process.

A further note: If you plan on saving the directory to a different location or even rename the directory, save the icon in the directory itself as it will move with the directory as otherwise it will revert to the standard icon.

 

[mowgliton]

Hi All.
Great thread, thanks for all your contributions.
I am mostly using Folders from Folder11 and some others from the thread with the same style.

Only have a small request for "TV Shows" and "Music Videos" folders.
Thanks for any kind artist who will create both of them.

Hi,

here is my contribution




w11folder

 

[Thomas4]

I forgot to add this:


I could have easily pasted the image on to the standard folder looking icon, but I thought, WHY? Be creative!

In actuality, the icons appear the same size as the standard icons, GIMP automatically resizes them so you don't have to.

 

[mowgliton]

I forgot to add this:


I could have easily pasted the image on to the standard folder looking icon, but I thought, WHY? Be creative!

In actuality, the icons appear the same size as the standard icons, GIMP automatically resizes them so you don't have to.

When Gimp resize your picture, it don't respect the ratio, so it's deformed
Personally, I very like the new thumbnails with windows 11



Or with custom folder:

 

[Thomas4]

The photo that I showed were of the icons themselves and not the original .jpg that I used originally.
You would have been able to resize the copy, but I've never tried or you could have exported them as a .jpg and repeated the process, but again I've never tried this either, again I've never had a need to.

 

[NEO701]

Hi,

here is my contribution

View attachment 51562


w11folder

This is very good.
Thank you!

Although I was hoping for somthing in the same style of Folder 11 introduced by JangOetama to match the rest of the icons.

 

[abactuon]

Icons for files with an unknown extension.

New-PSDrive -Name "HKCR" -PSProvider "Registry" -Root "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT"
$di = "%USERPROFILE%\Pictures\unknown.ico"
Reg Add "HKCR\Unknown\DefaultIcon" /ve /t REG_EXPAND_SZ /d $di /f
# (Default) REG_SIZE C:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll,-67

 

[mowgliton]

This is very good.
Thank you!

Although I was hoping for somthing in the same style of Folder 11 introduced by JangOetama to match the rest of the icons.

Like this ?

Projet

MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

www.mediafire.com

 

[NEO701]

Like this ?

View attachment 51809

Projet

MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

www.mediafire.com

Yes, exactly, thank you very much!
Just if you can make the music videos folder color to be orange, and the TV folder to be grey it will be perfect.