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Hi all!
I am trying to help someone who has difficulty finding things on their HDD by customising the default folder icons. Right click on folder> Customise and then I change the default icon for folders (generic yellow one) with custom icons of my own.
It works really well, but I would just like to know if this is in any way putting the contents of these folders at risk for corruption? Does changing the folder icon present any risk to the folder's contents? If something goes wrong, will I be unable to access the pictures, movies, etc. within?
Thanks
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Hi Pete,
There is no side-effects to changing the default folder icon in Windows 10, all you are basically changing is a registry entry in the background. If that did go wrong,(which is highly unlikely) Windows will automatically substitute the original icon location from System32.
Rest assured this change cannot affect your data or your ability to access that data . ..
Thank you for your help
Hi Pete, yes, that holds true for External storage as well.
Thank you for your quick response. Does this hold true for external storage media also?
