Icon Tweaker can be used to customize your windows icons. It is very easy to use. You can create your own icon theme with it. With IconTweaker theme system, you can share your own icon themes with other people. IconTweaker has an open theme format that can be extended using plug-ins. If you created an IconTweaker theme for your icons, you can be sure they can be used by everyone.
Many themes with beautiful icons are already included and ready to use. Plug-ins allow you to customize additional icons. They can be installed by opening them in your browser or by clicking Manage Plugins on the Tools menu. All plug-ins require IconTweaker 1.1 or later.
Here are some key features of IconTweaker:
- Customize Icons & Cursors – You can customize all icons on your desktop, folder icons, drive icons, network icons, file icons and cursors.
- Themes – The theme system allows you to apply a set of icons at once.
- Theme Archives – You can use the Theme Archive Builder to create a compressed file that contains themes with all the linked icons. These archives can be distributed to other computers.
- Icons for Individual Folders & Drives – Easily remember the content of a folder or drive by using custom icons.
- Icon System Settings – Customize the way Windows loads and displays icons.

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