How to change or restore default icon for a Folder in Windows 10

By default, your personal Documents, Desktop, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos are located in your account % User profile% location – for example in the C: Users Chidum.Osobalu folder. In this article, we’ll show you how change or restore the default icons for any of the items mentioned above personal files in Windows 10.

How to change or restore the default icon for a folder

You can change or restore the default folder icon in Windows 10 using any of the following methods:

• Change the default folder icon in properties
• Change the default folder icon in the desktop.ini file
• Default restore folder icon in properties
• Default restore icon for folder in desktop.ini file

In this article, we will focus on the Documents folder. But the procedure applies to any other personal file.

Now let’s take a look at the description of the process involved in changing or restoring the folder default icon, with respect to each of the methods.

1]Change the default icon of the Documents folder in Properties

To change the default icon for the Documents folder, follow these steps:

• hurry Windows key + E to open File Explorer.
• Open the current location of your Documents folder (in this case C: Users Chidum.Osobalu) in File Explorer.
• Then right click on Documents folder, and click Properties.
• Click it Personalize tongue.
• Click it Change icon button.
• Click it Browse button.
• Go to and select the icon library .dll or .ico file you want to use.

the % SystemRoot System32 shell32.dll and % SystemRoot System32 imageres.dll the files contain most of the default Windows icons.

• Click on Open.
• Select the icon you want to use
• Click on Okay.
• Click on Okay to apply the changes.

2]Change the default icon of the Documents folder in the desktop.ini file

To change the default icon for the Documents folder in desktop.ini, follow these steps:

• hurry Windows key + R to call up the Run dialog box.
• In the Run dialog box, copy and paste the environment variable below and press Enter.

%UserProfile%Documentsdesktop.ini

If you changed the default location of your Documents folder, you will need to replace % UserProfile% Documents in the above path with the actual full path to the current location of your Documents folder.

• In the text file that opens, on the IconResource = line in the desktop.ini window, replace the full path with the full path of the icon you want to use.

If you don’t have the IconResource = line, you will need to add it.

3]Default icon for restore documents folder in properties

To restore the default icon for the Documents folder in Properties, follow these steps:

• Open File Explorer.
• Open the current location of your Documents folder (in this case C: Users Chidum.Osobalu) in File Explorer.
• Then right click on Documents folder, and click Properties.
• Click it Personalize tongue.
• Click it Change icon button.
• Click it Reset button.

4]Default restore icon for the Documents folder in the desktop.ini file

To restore the default icon for the Documents folder in the desktop.ini file, follow these steps:

• Call the Run dialog box.
• In the Run dialog box, copy and paste the environment variable below and press Enter.

%UserProfile%Documentsdesktop.ini

• In the text file that opens, on the IconResource = line in the desktop.ini window, change the full path as follows:

%SystemRoot%system32imageres.dll,-112

• Then press CTRL + S to save the changes.
• Exit the text file.
• Restart the exploration process or log out of your current profile session and log back in to apply.

POINT: These free software to change folder icon color in Windows 10 are sure to interest you.

That’s all!