7FIcoNChangeR.INC

Personalizing the desktop is amongst the first things individuals do after installing Windows, or at least at some point during usage. Microsoft gives its clients a decent amount of options to visually tweak the OS, and third-party applications continue or enhance where Microsoft left off. Dedicated to folders, 7FIcoNChangeR.INC wants to make it easier to change icons.

The good thing is that you can get to witness the application’s set of features a bit faster than you regularly change a folder’s icon. This is because there’s no installation involved, which means you can easily carry this utility on an USB Flash drive. Moreover, it’s not going to mess around with system registries, even if it changes folder stuff.

Everything it can do is up for display in a rather compact main window, with only a few input fields, and several buttons you need to press. You need to figure out functionality by yourself, because there’s no help included, but it only takes a little while to accommodate.

What you have to do first hand is select the folder you consider has a really ugly icon, or simply unfit for its content. Sadly, you can’t just drag it in the corresponding spot, so you’re stuck either pasting the path in the input field, or clicking the Open Folder button. The same can be said about the icon itself, with the browse dialog opening exactly in the place you took the target from, making selection a little time-consuming.

Apart from folder and icon, you can write down an additional description to show up in the tooltip that appears when you hover the cursor over a folder. All that’s left to do is hit the Apply button. There are a few preset icons inside the application path folder, but don’t really provide that much variety.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that 7FIcoNChangeR aims to simplify the process of customizing your folder, but it doesn’t manage to achieve much through its set of features. The only thing it brings is a small collection of icons that can be changed just as easy and fast, but with no other customization options, as you normally would without this utility.