Reader Barry is running Windows 7 Professional. Out of the blue, his system started displaying generic icons for various files and folders. Thankfully, he was kind enough to include a screenshot, ...

Q. I recently installed a larger hard drive on my PC, and when I booted it, everything worked perfectly, except for the Microsoft icons. Before I changed the hard drive, MS Word docs had a MS Word ...

Most Mac users will be familiar with Finder's ability to display icon previews for file types that it recognizes. The Finder icon for a JPEG image for example will show a small thumbnail-sized version ...

If you have a collection of files for which you would like to change the icon, then there are some easy approaches to doing so. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

You can use the macOS Finder's Copy command to copy and paste files. But here's how to use the same command to copy file icons into Preview. You've probably used the macOS Finder's popup contextual ...

Windows users can choose to replace the generic icon of Office applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) with the Thumbnail preview of the first page while saving the file. Follow the instructions ...

This article shows you how to change the icon of any file or folder on your Mac. Apart from adding a bit of personal style to your desktop, there are good practical reasons why you might want to do so ...

A new bug in Windows 10 1903 is causing USB drives to use the wrong icon in File Explorer even though the drives are clearly being detected properly. In the current version of Windows 10 1903 ...

Reader James Gibson’s kids have been up to mischief and his Mac has suffered. He writes: While my wife and kids were playing online Pony games on the computer, she left them unattended for a few ...