Icon+

Personalize your files and folders so important items are easy to spot.

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Changing an icon

Right-click any file or folder in Windows Explorer and choose the icon option from the context menu to give it a distinctive, custom icon.

Tag and rating overlays

If you use Tag+ and Rate+, your tags and star ratings show up as small overlays right on the icon or thumbnail — so you can spot tagged or highly-rated items at a glance without opening them. See the Tag+ and Rate+ guides for details.

Restoring the default icon

Use the same context menu option and choose the default/reset entry to restore the original system icon for a file or folder.

Icon submenu with custom icon choices and the default icon option
Pick an icon from the submenu, or choose the default entry to restore the original. Available icons depend on your configuration. View full-size screenshot.

Rounded thumbnail corners

On the Icon+ page in Settings, you can have File Explorer show image thumbnails and icons with rounded corners.

Turning it off

If you don't use custom icons, turn off the icon options in the right-click menu on the Icon+ page in Settings.

Choose or add an icon pack

Included icon packs

Choose from Windows 11 - Files and folders and Chinese Zodiac. Turn individual packs on or off in Icon+ Settings so the Icon menu contains the collections you want. Pack menus require Context Menu+.

Bring your own icon packs

Set Icon Location in Icon+ Settings and add folders of .ico files. Each folder becomes a group in the Icon menu; folders inside it become nested groups. This makes a personal collection or a matching set of project icons easy to reuse. Requires Context Menu+.

Included and custom icon packs

Icon+ settings with Chinese Zodiac and Windows 11 Files and folders packs and a Custom icon packs section
Choose which included packs appear in your Icon menu, or open Custom icon packs to add your own folders of icons. Icon packs require Context Menu+. View full-size screenshot.