I currently don’t use either but I have used the theme as well as the icons for a long time. If you fancy it, there’s even an Arc theme available for Windows by the same guy. The use of obvious and straight-forward glyphs gives this theme a modern yet recognizable look. It makes heavy use of simple, clean colors, thin crisp lines and follows the trending flat design.
Arc iPack by niivu (once again), brings the beauty of the Arc icon theme to your Windows PC. You can find specific installation instructions on the respective Deviant Art pages of these icon packs.Īrc has been one of the most, some might say the best themes available for Linux systems and it was only a couple of years ago that Linux got an official Arc Icon theme. All you’ll then have to do is rename the assumediconpackname.ee (or whatever) to assumediconpackname.exe and then double-click to run the installer. Most of the time, you’ll get the installer as assumediconpackname.ee or some variation that prevents it from being a. It is a tool that makes changes to the necessary system files so that you won’t have to. The icon packs mentioned in this article all come with an iPack installer. Here are some awesome free icon packs for Windows you should try.
Windows xp folder icon changer install#
We’ve seen how you can install third-party themes on Windows, installing icon packs is a bit easier. This is why we recommend creating a system restore point often, and every time before installing a theme, icon pack, or anything else. Until they do, we’re all dependent on third-party support to customize Windows which can often result in breaking the system completely. Considering how easy it is though it is rather confusing why Microsoft won’t add support for third-party themes and icon packs.
I think we’ve pretty much established the fact that Windows can be customized, albeit only via some extreme measures.