Stardock Icon Packager 5.0
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It is easily done without any other app. First find the icons you want to use, then right click each icon you want to replace, click properties, and look for the change icon, click it and browse for the icons you found earlier and apply them. Iconpackager does this in batches using a set of icons that usually match or are from a matching sets, so is much easier, if after you have applied a set of icons in Iconpackager, there is one or two you would prefer to change , follow the info above.
Quoting naroon1, reply 6
It is easily done without any other app. First find the icons you want to use, then right click each icon you want to replace, click properties, and look for the change icon, click it and browse for the icons you found earlier and apply them. Iconpackager does this in batches using a set of icons that usually match or are from a matching sets, so is much easier, if after you have applied a set of icons in Iconpackager, there is one or two you would prefer to change , follow the info above.
Stardock Icon Packager 5.0
I use this method but have asked that in IconPackager there's an easier option to include other icons and desktop shortcuts to packages to save having to repeat the above process every time a package is changed.
In Winn 11 - When I make changes, previous changes seem to be getting overwritten. It is really a bummer. It might be because I am not closing and reopening??? "Do not run until you start it"???? Start what?
Quoting ndamanning, reply 8
Sorry!... What does this mean?
"IP applies the icons then exit when you close it and do not run until you start it to change icons again."
Could you explain it in clearer English?
In Winn 11 - When I make changes, previous changes seem to be getting overwritten. It is really a bummer. It might be because I am not closing and reopening??? "Do not run until you start it"???? Start what?
IconPackager is not yet fully compatible with Windows 11, although it might work to some extent for some. [Link]
IconPackager changes a lot of icons in one swoop, just like you can do with one icon at a time yourself for i.e. shortcut. The app itself do not run in the background after it has applied all the icons after you exit, simply because there is nothing to do.
To be honest, it doesn't work very well. Just purchased new computer with fresh install of Win 11. Icon packager randomly changes some icons I did not ask to change and has changed all of the default folders in explorer to a white generic icon. Getting ready to bstall it.
I created a Icon Package however not all the icons especially in the Control Panel change. If I apply the Icon Packager package several times, then the do change however some of the other icons in the control panel start dunplicating themselves.
Add remove hardware, date and time, Display, Keyboard, Mouse, Game controller, Power options, Sound and Audio devices, system and user accounts within Control panel. I am using WinRar and even though I did not change the icon in Icon Packager, it changed it anyways to another icon that i used to for .cab files.
I would like to confirm that after applying an icon package (using latest icon packager) - copperDeck2_4.5 not all of my icons changed; after a reboot all of my control panel icons except for devices and printers remained vanilla. But I did see them flicker and change to the icon package and then go back to vanilla the first time I run control panel after a reboot. I havent seen any duplicated icons so far
In IconPackager, under Settings>System Settings you can use the 'Rebuild Icon Cache' and Repair Icon Images buttons, which should help with this issue. If not, try the Repair Shell Icons... button and select "Repair shell icons for all processes" and click OK.
There are 2 issues here. Blank icons are caused when IconPackager fails or is unable to load the icon images. The ticket I believe is ptuckey's is for multiple instances of the Dell wireless utility appearing in the control panel, which I don't believe is being caused by IconPackager.
There are several fixes for the default icon issue in IconPackager, mainly because it has to accommodate several different ways that icons change in Windows (changing the Control Panel icons is completely different from changing shortcut icons is completely different from changing application icons, etc.) If you are having this issue and advice from the forums is not helping please e-mail sup...@stardock.com and specify what you have tried to repair them.
I just purchased Icon Packager 5 and it doesn't appear to work as well as previous versions.. I am having the same trouble.. My desktop folder icons don't change and my documents don't change.. I was hoping to hear of an easy fix.. I sure could use one.. thanks Pat
I have also struggled constantly with IconPackager. I create icon collections all the time, so it seems to be a daily battle for me to get things to work properly. I've submitted a few trouble tickets in the past but I've been told that it's a problem that's being worked on. Hopefully that will be the next big project after the new WB update is finally released. I guess at least it gives me something to look forward to......( note to self : "man, you really need to get a life" )
I found a workaround for the package I wanted to display on the desktop.. I created a folder, called it stuff, added all my folders ino it.. opened the stuff folder and changed manually all the folders inside of stuff to the icon package I wanted. then just drag them to the desktop, delete the stuff folder.. and now my desktp looks the way I want it to.. it's a lot of work for just one theme.. oh well. Patsy
This is really frustrating! I have gone through the long process of changing all the control panel icons to my custom icons. When I then apply the changes and go to the control panel screen all those I changed do appear. But, when I switch to another package (e.g. windows default) and come back to my custom package, none of the control panel icons show. All that laborious changing down the drain. Stardock really should fix this because there are competing programs which change all of the icons. That's what I want (and I'm sure others do too) from a program because I am tired of the default windows icons. A gui program should be about changing/customizing the appearance to a person's preferences. But IP falls short. It is not as thorough a program as, for example, WB.
I created another package via package builder. I used the area which builds the control panel icons and tested this by putting a few (maybe 5) in there. I then saved the package and went to the program to apply it. After applying those control panel icons did show. So, it appears that changing the icons via the program's "change icon" function doesn't work but if one starts out by building a package which includes the control panel icons, then that does work. Still seems that the program is flawed if there is only one way to get the control panel icons to show (i.e. by using package builder). The program should allow modifications after one has built a package rather than requiring one to start from scratch with the building process.
I stopped using iconpackager a long time ago for it's lack of changing all icons and above all restore them : applying a package that doesn't do it's job is one thing but discovering that my icons got messy when reversing back was a major drawback !
I am running IconPackager v10.03 on Windows 11 (build 22631.3527).
According to your own compability list, then it should be fully compatible:
stardock-app-compatibility
The thing is, I have files that are not showing the icon I set up in IconPackager. It sometimes takes another icon from my package. I did notice this problem already on Windows 10. I am not sure, but it seems like it happens when you get over a certain amount of icons in the package. I have 110 so far.
Also, Live Folders only worked intermittently on Windows 10, and have NEVER worked on my Windows 11 installation.
Any ideas or fixes (or maybe an upcoming patch?)
Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Do you see if you test with any of those icon pack that come with Icon packager? If you do please let me know the icon pack name. And tell me which icons don't changed accordingly. As for Live Folders, I believe this is known issue on Windows 11.
Quoting basj, reply 1
Do you see if you test with any of those icon pack that come with Icon packager? If you do please let me know the icon pack name. And tell me which icons don't changed accordingly. As for Live Folders, I believe this is known issue on Windows 11.
Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.
My problems occur only with custom files I have added (xml, txt, pdf, 7z, rar, vbs, html, jpeg, mp3 and so on) so using a standard package won't show any problems. Also, they seem to change at random. One or 2 filetypes might show the pdf icon even though they are set up for a different one.
I have to say I used to have more than 200 icons in my package, but at the moment with only about 110 it seems like it's behaving (for now). I WOULD like to have the full 200+ icons again, so all filetypes on my system have the same icon set, but as said... When having too many icons it starts acting up.
I wanted to give you examples, so I applied the "Windows Default Icons" package to show the difference, and then went back to my own package.
Now it all acts fine, except from the live folders, which ALL just shows the standard folder.
I also just noticed that all file types opened by Notepad++ refuse to change to my icons.
My guess is, it best to switch to default Windows icons set so that the icons cache could be rebuild. As for Live Folders, this, I believe has been reported by few others too. I forwarded this issue to Stardock Support Team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.
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