How to Customize Your Windows 7 Taskbar Icons for Any App

From bright colored icons to more modern icons with text, seldom do your app icons truly go together.

So, instead of dealing with clashing colors and designs, let’s create new taskbar icons.

You technically can change icons directly from the taskbar.

Instead, let’s create new, customized icons for our taskbar.

Once you’ve got the icons in the new folder, right-click one and select Properties.

go for the Shortcut tab if it doesn’t automatically open to it, and click Change Icon.

Now click Browse to find the new icon you want.

Now, repeat this with all the icons in your folder.

Unfortunately, some shortcuts are more tricky, and won’t let you change the icon.

Instead, we’ll need to create a new shortcut to this program.

Right-click in the folder or on your desktop, and select New –> Shortcut.

Now customize this new shortcut as before.

Then change the icon to the one you want as before.

Now, drag your new icons to your taskbar, and line them up as you want.

Moments later, you’ll have a nice, customized taskbar with icons that look great together!

you might take your customization even farther and change out your Windows 7 Start orb to match your icons.

Here’s how to do it:Change the Windows 7 Start Orb the Easy Way.

Now that’s a customized taskbar!

If you’d like the exact desktop look we used here, here’s the icons and wallpapers: