

Select Browse and choose an alternative icon for the shortcut. Then click the Icons tab, one of the icons and Edit selected. Click the Edit selected package option next to Apply. You can also add alternative icons to the shortcuts. That should add the new icon to the taskbar. Click both the Taskbar and Start menu check-boxes and Apply. Once pinned to taskbar, right-click their new icon from the Icons tab and click Apply selected. However, if you later pin them to the taskbar they can still be switched. The software shortcuts included in the Icon tab are not converted to their new icons unless they are on the taskbar or Start menu when you apply the icon package. From there select a restore point to revert back to the original set of icons. Click Backup and Restore Backup to open the Backups window. Of course, you can always revert back to the original set. Click Apply to convert the taskbar and Start menu shortcuts to the new icon set as in the shot below. That opens an Apply Package window from where you should select the Start menu and Taskbar check-boxes. The tab displays a larger number of the new icons included with the icon set. For a more extensive preview of the new icons, click on an icon set and then the Icon tab. On the left of the window are the six icon sets that you can switch to. Then the 7Conifier window below should open. When you run the app for the first time, a window opens asking if you would like to back up your icons in a Default package? Click Yes so that you can quickly restore your icons.

Select a suitable folder destination for the extracted folder, and then click on 7CONIFIER.exe to open the software. As such, you’ll have to extract the contents of the file by right-clicking it and selecting Extract All. It should also work for Windows 8.1, although Windows 8.1 isn’t listed as officially supported. The software is compatible with both the Windows 7 and 8 platforms. That’s a freeware software package which switches your taskbar and Start menu shortcuts to an entirely new set of icons. Read on to learn more.įirstly, check out this page to add 7Conifier to your software library.

This guide shows you how you can change Windows 7/8/8.1 taskbar icons to an entirely new icon set.

However, there’s a quicker way to change them all in one go. Sure, you can manually customize each of the shortcuts on the Windows 7/8/8.1 taskbar and Start menu.
