Icon design for windows 7. Large set of icons

Those who are tired of looking at the same icons on their computer can easily replace them with others. It's easy to make your computer more expressive and interesting.

There are many thematic resources for this and additional programs.

How to choose an icon set

To successfully change the design of icons, it is better to adhere to certain rules:

1. New icons must match the OS theme.
2. The informational function of icons is more important than the decorative one; they should not be clumsy and difficult to read.
3. When choosing a set of icons, you need to pay attention to their quality. Poorly made icons not only do not decorate the system, but also spoil the appearance.
4. In pursuit of style, one should not forget about practicality.

Where to download icon sets

The network is replete with various resources with “embellishments” of operating systems. Among them there are many low-quality craft sites that are embedded in search results.

Here are some resources that provide quality free content:

7themes.su

A good thematic resource that allows you to download icons for free. In addition to icons, you can find many other free decorations for operating system.

The collection of icons is constantly updated and undergoes strict selection for quality.

Oformi.net

Another good specialized resource. The selection is somewhat smaller, but there are unique options developed specifically for this site.

Along with icons, you can download cursors or even entire themes.

Westyle.ru

Relatively small collection of icons. But this is compensated by the originality of the materials provided. More than 60% of the icons provided were not found on other sites.

How to download icons for windows 7

Important! The system extension for icon files is ICO. Therefore, you need to download icons for Windows 7 in ico format. To use packages in PNG format, you will need to convert them, which will take additional time.

Let's look at downloading using 7themes.su as an example. First you need to find your favorite collection of icons in the catalog.

Then go to its page and click the “Yandex.Disk” button in the “Download file” block. To download from cloud storage, you will need to go through a simple registration process.

This is faster than waiting on a file hosting service.

Before downloading, you need to check the file format. In the “Info” block, in the “Format” column, ICO should be indicated.

Often included is a set of icons in PNG and special file IP for the IconPackeger program, about which more later.

On the Yandex.Disk page you will also need to click the “Download” button.

Now the archive with icons has been saved. It is enough to unpack its contents into a separate directory and you can begin installation.

How to install icons

Icons can be assigned either separately for each object or for the entire OS. In the first case, system tools are used.

In the second - IconPackeger software (a free thirty-day version is available).

Adding an icon to a single object

Let's look at applying an icon to one object using the example of a created folder. To do this, you will need to right-click on the required folder. Select “Properties” from the menu.

In the object parameters form, you will need to select the “Settings” tab, in which there will be a “Change icon...” button.

A guide to system icons will open. In its window you need a “Browse” button.

Clicking on it will open a standard explorer, where you need to set the path to the icons, and then select one of them and use the “Open” button.

The Icon Explorer will show the selected icon. In its window you will need to click “OK”.

Then, in the options window, click “Apply” and the folder icon will be changed.

This method is applicable to other folders and any files.

Important! System icons (My Computer, Recycle Bin, etc.) cannot be changed this way. The program described below will help you make them different.

Changing all icons using IconPackeger

The downloaded program will need to be installed. Then launch using the item in the Start menu. Before directly launching the program, a window will appear asking you to purchase a subscription.

In it you need to click the green “Continue” button.

After this, the program window will open. New icons can be selected from the carousel at the bottom of the window.

To use downloaded icons (file with .ip extension), you will need to click “Add icon package”. In the drop-down list, select “Install from disk”.

This will open File Explorer where you need to provide the file path and then click Open. After which the program will load the collection and show a preview of the icons.

To accept changes appearance icons, you need to click “Apply icon packge”.

After this, the program will inform you that Explorer and the taskbar will restart. In the message window, click “OK”.

After that, all the icons open folders and the taskbar will disappear for a second (possibly more). When they appear, all the icons in the collection will be in place of the previous standard ones.

Some programs or file types may not have appropriate icons. Such objects will remain with the same icons.

Returning standard icons will also not be difficult.

To do this, you need to select “Windows Default Icons By: Microsoft” in the carousel of available collections and apply them using the “Apply icon package” button.

Several useful programs

There are other programs to help the system designer. Some of them are convenient, but the tools described above will suffice for basic actions.

• AveIcon 2 is a small utility that allows you to convert PNG files to ICO. You can only convert files one at a time;

How to download and install icons for Windows 7 for free?

Personalization is an important part when working with a computer. It’s much more convenient when everything is put “in its place”, as the owner needs it. Unfortunately, Windows 7 Home Basic does not have such a feature. And sometimes it is necessary to display system shortcuts or simply change their size. However, such customization of the Desktop is possible if you dig a little deeper into the system.

How to find standard icons

Unfortunately, without digging into the system, setting icons for the Desktop will not happen. But if you search a little, you can do this in Windows 7 in several ways:

• If simple shortcuts are enough and there are not many of them, you can drag the necessary programs from the Start menu with the mouse.
• Select the desired shortcuts and click on them right click, and then select “Display on desktop”. The option is quite long, considering that you may need a lot of icons.

• Find a window with standard icons, and then extract the necessary shortcuts from it.

It is the third method that is interesting, since even it can be performed using different methods.

Via command line

First of all, you should open Command line keyboard shortcut Windows + R. As soon as a new window appears, enter the following command into it: Control.exe desk.cpl,Web,0. And then click on “Run”.

Via "Search"

To find the required function through the “Search”, which is hidden behind the “Start” button, you need to enter the following, very long and intricate name, which was extracted from Help: “Show or hide icons on the desktop.” Of course, without quotes.

By the way, the Control Panel also has a similar function. Just open Search, which is located in the upper right corner in the form of an inconspicuous line, and then enter the word “icons” into it. After this, Windows 7 will give the user the required window.

Bottom line

After any action performed, a window will immediately appear, which will display several standard Windows shortcuts 7. To list them, just check the box next to their names at the top of the screen. And if you no longer need any of them, uncheck the corresponding box.

At open window Customization of the icons themselves is also available. For example, you can change their appearance, in which they will appear on the Desktop screen. Just select the icon you want to change, then click on “Change icon” and click on it the new kind. And to cancel changing the appearance, there is a “Normal icon” button next to it, which returns it to its original appearance.

How to change icon size

In addition to changing standard icons, you can also customize Desktop shortcuts in general. That is, changing their size. There are two methods of action for this:

• Standard sizes for the Desktop.
• Customization "to suit you".

It sounds scary, but in Windows 7 this setup is incredibly simple. In the first case, you need to right-click on an empty space, and then select the “View” section.

In the drop-down menu, we are interested in the first three lines, which are responsible for the size. Below you can also change their location, that is, adjust the presence of a grid and alignment.

(Visited 11,650 times, 1 visits today)

27
May
2007

developer: Igor Korneychuk
Publication type: license
Interface language: only Russian
Medicine: Not required
Platform: Win98, WinME, WinXP, Win2000
Description: Collection of icons - A program that will help decorate your favorite Windows. At the same time, without overloading the already familiar design of the system. This is a kind of “zest”, an addition to what is already beautiful. Of course, you can spend hours in front of the computer, searching for icons on the Internet, wasting your nerves and hard-earned money. Or you can download the “Collection of Icons” and forget about sleepless nights on the Internet.
The collection contains everything, or almost all topics - from funny cartoon characters to serious icons for folders and files. This version contains 1109 colorful and rich icons.

01
Mar
2008

Year of release: 2006 developer: Igor Korneychuk
Publication type: license
Interface language: English + Russian
Medicine: Not required
Platform: Windows

Description: Anyone who has ever looked for a replacement icon for, say, “My Computer,” knows what it’s like to search for it on the Internet... It’s hard. Either the quality is worse than bad, or the size of the archive with icons is very indecent. But as practice shows, Most of the icons in this “archive” are, to put it mildly, disgusting. “Icon Collection” is a FREE icon collection program that will make it easier...

05
but I
2007

Year of manufacture: 2006
Genre: utility developer: Igor Korneychuk
Publisher: http://www.umniksoft.com/
Publication type: license

Medicine: Not required
Platform: WinXP, Win2000
System requirements: minimum
Description: update for Icon Collection 16.0 The database of icons has been increased. + 89 icons. The total number of icons is 1109. It is now possible to add your own icons.

23
Aug
2015

Collection of icons for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10

Year of manufacture: 2015
Genre: Icons
Number of files: 4004
Resolution: 256x256
Format: ico
Description: A collection of icons that will make folders on your PC beautiful and bright. There are 4004 icons, on different topics. Convenient to use, they put a photo icon on the folder and you can even know without reading the folder signature that there is a photo, etc.

29
Mar
2012

Large set of icons

Year of manufacture: 2012
Genre: Icons
Number of files: 16090
Resolution: 16x16 to 512x512
Format: PNG, ICO
Description: A large collection of different, high-quality and colorful icons for every character and every taste! Suitable for everything: designing a system, decorating folders and shortcuts, making a menu on your phone, decorating a website or program, just use your imagination! In general, there is somewhere to roam!
Add. information: The release contains: -The largest icon pack from World of Warcraft -A set of pirate icons: pirate flag, pirate ships, black sails, etc. -Icons like in MAC OS -Icons for all phones...

11
Jun
2008

Year of manufacture: 2008
Genre: smart icons
Publisher: flashripper
Publication type: license

Medicine: Not required
Platform: Windows
System requirements: Win9x,WinMe,Win2000,WinXP,Win2003,WinNT
Description: A set of beautiful icons. The archive contains 15 icons in ico format and 15 icons png format. The resolution of all icons is 512/512.

10
Jan
2011

87 PNG icons

Year of manufacture: 2011
Genre: Icons
Number of files: 87
Resolution: 150x150, 1000x1000
Format: PNG
Description: Icon (diminutive of sign, icon [from English icon] - element GUI, a small picture representing an application, file, directory, window, operating system component, device, etc. In response to a mouse or other similar input device clicking on the icon, standard actions are usually performed (launching an application, opening a file, etc. .d.)

30
Mar
2011

Browser icon set

Year of manufacture: 2011
Genre: Icons
Number of files: 350
Resolution: 128x128, 256x256, 512x512
Format: PNG, ICO
Description: A selection of different variations of logo icons of the five most popular Internet browsers: Opera, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari.

24
Jan
2010

Windows Icon Set

Year of manufacture: 2009
Genre: Graphic design
Number of files: 2189
Resolution: 128x128 / 256x256
Format: ICO
Description: A selection of beautiful and original icons to change the appearance of folders, files, programs on your desktop and more.
Add. information: ExpandReplacing, changing and installing icons! It's no secret that people always strive to change their surrounding world and make it more beautiful! Of course, this cannot but apply to our beloved computer, because some spend almost their entire day on it! And replacement or change, or just installation of icons...

20
Mar
2008

Genre: Build a system
Interface language: Russian only
Medicine: Present
Platform: Windows XP
Description: A set of beautiful icons As a bonus, 3 programs
Add. Information: FolderIco 3.5 Allows you to change the icon of any folder. You can supply both ico, icl and png files Folder2MyPC Adds shortcuts to any programs and folders to My Computer. You can also add them to the Control Panel IconPackagerv 3.20 Allows you to immediately replace all the icons used by Windows with your own. Several themes included. You can also create your own topics.

08
Jun
2008

11
Jun
2008

Year of manufacture: 2008
Genre: icon pack
Publisher: fiashripper
Publication type: license
Interface language: English only
Medicine: Not required
Platform: Windows
System requirements: Win9x,WinMe,Win2000,WinXP,Win2003,WinNT
Description: Another pack of beautiful icons, consisting of 160 wonderful icons in .png and .ico formats. 80 icons in .png format with a resolution of 256×256 and 80 icons in .ico format with a resolution of 16×16 http://ipicture.ru/uploads/080611/HYgk1j1cSK.jpg http://ipicture.ru/uploads/080611/ Rfvmgro14s.jpg

Many people know what icons are, because they appeared a long time ago back in the 90s. Interestingly, the first to use icons were not Windows developers, and Mac OS programmers. But over time, the Windows operating system overtook its competitor and began to use and improve the graphical component of icons with all its might. With the development of the operating room sis Windows themes and the Internet, a huge number of all kinds of icons have appeared. Icons are used everywhere these days; without them, no one would probably be able to work in any system. You can download icons for free and without registration on your desktop or for Windows by going to our website.

On our website you can find and download many beautiful and unusual icons on various topics. By combining icons, Windows themes, and desktop backgrounds, you can greatly transform your interface. Icons are also of great importance now for web programmers; they use them to create various website elements. Web designers using icons and special programs, create amazing design projects. The collection of icons on the site will be constantly replenished and updated, I think everyone will find the type of icons that will be in demand.

All icons on the site are hand-selected and sorted, most icons have a PNG extension. In the future, icons for other extensions that have their own specific applications will appear on the site. Download icons You can absolutely free of charge, without any SMS or file sharing, just click on the button or archive with the file. Together with the selected icons, the corresponding icons will look harmonious