Download Icon Start Menu Windows 10
Janita Castricone
Where does Windows 10 store the icon(s) for the Start Menu button? I mean the icons used for the button on the taskbar that opens the start menu. They look like this (dark and light themes, respectively):
The far-left panel of the Start menu can have a minimum of two icons (your account icon and the power options icon) and a maximum of 12 icons. You can customize the icons that appear by opening the Settings menu and going to Personalization > Start > Choose which folders appear on Start. Here, you can toggle on/off the following icons: File Explorer, Settings, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Videos, HomeGroup, Network and Personal folder.
The full-screen Start menu is the default menu if you're using a tablet, while the partial-screen Start menu is the default if you have a desktop or laptop. If you want the full-screen experience on a PC, go to Settings > Personalization > Start and toggle on Use Start full screen. And on a tablet, you can go to Settings > System > Tablet mode and choose which mode -- desktop or tablet -- you want your device to start in.
To change the color of your Start menu, Start screen, taskbar and window borders, go to Settings > Personalization > Colors > Show color on Start, taskbar, and action center. Turn this option on and pick the accent color you'd like to use from the options above. If you'd like your Start menu to be transparent-ish, you can also turn on Make start, taskbar, and action center transparent.
If your Start menu is starting to feel crowded, you can make it wider by going to Settings > Personalization > Start and toggling on Show more tiles.
Even with an extra-wide Start menu, it can start to feel cluttered if you have added a bunch of tiles to it. As with the thumbnails littering your desktop, you can organize Start menu tiles into folders. Just drag on tile on top of another tile to create a folder of like-minded tiles. It'll feel very familiar to iPhone owners who pride themselves on their neat and orderly collection of app folders, though there's no jiggling involved.
Generally, I'm happy with Start 11. I'm not a fan of Windows 11's approach to the start menu, so I'm using Start11 to emulate the Windows 10 approach. However, I'd like to tweak the icons. The "small" button size is fine, but the icon within the button is tiny. If I make the button larger, the icon grows slightly in size, but represents even less of the button's area. There's too much gray space for my liking.
Yesterday I updated CC apps, selecting to remove the old ones. Now all of the Adobe icons on the start menu are messed up, i.e. they don't work anymore. Even the little ones in the complete list of apps on the left side fail: They still show 2017, should be 2018. 2018 icons are nowhere.
Meanwhile, after yet another restart, it seems fixed. Still I need to manually recreate all icons. And (of course?) the application defaults are also broken. But that is an issue I had for years. Especially Photoshop - it never appears in the suggested application list for images ... But that's a different issue.
I have Spotify pinned to the Start menu. But I find it hard to locate the icon because it's always changing graphics to show various playlists, artists, etc., see attached. Is there a way I can change this to just show a static Spotify logo like the one that shows in the taskbar?
Great question! Yes, there's a simple way to change Spotify's start menu behavior so it only shows the icon instead of rotating artwork. If you'll just right click on Spotify's tile in your start menu, then select the "More" option, and finally click "Turn Live Tile off," you'll only see the icon. I've attached a couple screenshots if you need them!
with the standard Start menu. But I use the search to start my apps - that means I press the Windows key and then type some characters of the app I want to use and then press Enter or click to launch it
The first thing I tried was to restart my PC. I also tried clearing the icon cache (using instructions here: -us/windows/forum/all/icons-broke-in-windows-search/d8f92c14-2ffe-43ec-87b0-c60fc16e2692); still no icon.
The icon for Publisher 2 shows in the task bar when I open the app, but it does NOT show when I search for the App in the Start menu or when I pin to Start. It pins as a blank box and is not clickable (does not open the app).
I searched through the forums and found that the executable is placed in a folder within AppData>Local, and I see the AffinityPublisher2.exe file twice there: in the root of the WindowsApps folder AND in its own folder (the latter is where my non-fuctioning start icon is linking to):
I'm not sure why but the background for the TB icon in the windows 10 start menu is set to a specific color instead of being transparent like all the others. If you've noticed, the icon is smaller as I have had it edited in photoshop to match the rest of the icons. The background color was like this even before customizing the TB icon. Recommendations?
Thanks for the link! I DID work or at least I found a way to make it work. The only con here is that the background color is hard coded to the icon so this won't work if you have the windows tiles choose the color from the wallpaper you have set.
1- Browse to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\VisualElements (or your respective installation path).2- Modify the two image files in photoshop and add the background color desired. Note: At this point the icons should have appeared as desired in the windows tiles but for some reason they don't so on we go.***3- Browse and open this file C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.VisualElementsManifest.xml4- This controls the text color of the icon in the Windows Tiles. For the "ForegroundText" field, enter "Light" if you want the text to be white, or "Dark" if you want the text to be blackish.5- Enter the desired hex color in the "BackgroundColor" field and save the file.6- Browse to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs7- Locate "mozilla thunderbird" - right click it and go to properties --> shortcut --> change icon.8- add a custom icon here which you can grab online or have a png converted into the .ico format, select and save it. Note: The changes were visible for me at this point, if not, restart the PC and check again. Step 8 is what forces the changes of all the other steps for some reason. Nothing changed until a new icon is selected.
Go back to the Start menu and look for apps that you'd want to put into a folder. Check for related apps, such as Microsoft Office programs, web browsers, photo and video editors, or utilities. Drag and drop one icon on top of another to create a folder.
Next, look for other apps that you want to place in a folder. But here's a challenge. What if the apps are so far apart on the Start menu that dragging and dropping one on the other is too difficult? No problem, not when you can put them both on the same row. Right-click one of the apps and select Move to front. That moves the icon to the first spot in the top row.
Finally, if you decide you want to remove an app from a folder and place it by itself in the Start menu, just open the folder and drag the icon outside. If you remove all of the apps except one, the folder itself disappears.
Click the Dropbox icon to access the Dropbox desktop application menu. After you click the Dropbox icon in your taskbar, you can access and manage your Dropbox settings by clicking your profile picture (avatar or initials) in the top-right corner.
Click the Dropbox icon to access the Dropbox desktop application menu. After you click the Dropbox icon in your menu bar, you can access and manage your Dropbox settings by clicking your profile picture (avatar or initials) in the top-right corner.
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