System Items
In this category, you can replace typical Windows icons with icons with a common theme. You can also change the name of many elements, such as the Recycle Bin, My Computer and My Network Places.
After clicking System items in the navigation bar, all system icons that can be changed are shown in a hierarchical list on the right side of the window. The Desktop level is selected by default, under which you can see all special desktop items. Select one of these items to change it.
How to change an icon
Click Replace icon to open a dialog in which you can choose a new icon for the selected item. The module always shows the icon library in which the current icon for the item is contained. This is normally the library Shell32.dll, which is included with Windows. If you have an icon library of your own, you can view its contents by clicking Browse.
As soon as you have found the desired icon, select it with your mouse and click OK to record your change.
Important: All of the changes that you make to system items are not applied immediately. The program records your changes for the individual items, and indicates that a change has been saved by adding a small red star next to the respective entry in the list. Your changes are not applied until you click Apply in the lower right corner of the window.
Undoing changes
If you have selected a different icon for an item, you can undo this change at any time as long as you have not yet clicked Apply. To do this, select the corresponding item in the list and click Discard unsaved changes made to this item.
If you have already clicked Apply, you can still undo changes to an item by resetting it to the Windows defaults at any time. To do this, select the desired entry in the list and click Reset item to Windows defaults. Please note that this link is only shown when the selected icon is not set to the Windows defaults.
Undoing changes for multiple items
If you should want to undo changes made to multiple items, you can click Reset category or Reset all categories.
Here, "category" refers to the five levels into which the system items are divided, namely Desktop, Start menu, Explorer, File types and Control Panel. The first link only resets the items in the currently active category, while the second resets all system items that can be changed with TuneUp WinStyler without exception.
After either of the links is clicked, a dialog is shown that asks you if you wish to reset all items to the Windows defaults, or if you only wish to discard any unsaved changes for these items. The second option is of course only available when changes have not yet been applied.
Icon packages
Of course, it is rather tedious to change all Windows icons one at a time. For this reason, TuneUp WinStyler also allows you to replace all of the icons in Windows with a new look in one fell swoop. To do this, click Icon Packages in the lower right corner of the window.
A new window opens in which you can see all available icon packages. Select the desired package in the list and click Install to have the new icons shown in the main window.
You can also add new icon packages to the list by clicking Add at the top of the list. Here, you can either add an icon package from a file on your computer, or download new icon packages from TuneUp Online, where you can select from a large number of packages.