How to change / restore Music folder icon in Windows

By default, the personal Music folder is located in the % UserProfile% folder (for example, " C: UsersBrink ") of the account.

This guide will show you how to change or restore the default Music folder icon for your account in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10.

Change the Music folder icon in Properties

1. Open the current location of the Music folder (eg " C: UsersBrink ") in File Explorer ( Win+ E).

Open the current location of the Music folder

2. Right-click or hold and hold the Music folder and click Properties.

3. Click the Customize tab and click the Change Icon button .

Click the Customize tab and click the Change Icon button

4. Follow the steps below to select an icon:

Note : The % SystemRootSystem32shell32.dll and % SystemRootSystem32imageres.dll files contain most of the Windows default icons.

1. Click the Browse button .

Click the Browse button

1. Navigate to and select the symbol library (e.g., .dll) or the .ico file you want to use and click Open.

Select the icon library or the .ico file you want to use

1. Select the symbol you want to use and click OK.

5. Click OK to apply the changes.

Change the Music folder icon in the desktop.ini file

1. Press the Win+ keys Rto open Run , copy and paste % UserProfile% Musicdesktop.ini into Run , then click OK to open the file.

Note : If you have changed the default location of the Music folder, then you will need to replace % UserProfile% Music in the path above with the actual full path corresponding to the current location of the Music folder .

2. In the IconResource = line in the desktop.ini window, change the path to the full path of the icon you want to use.

Note : If there is no line IconResource = , then you will need to add it.

Change to the full path of the icon you want to use

3. Click File (menu bar), click Save ( Ctrl+ S) and close the desktop.ini window.

Save and close the desktop.ini window

4. Restart the explorer or logout process and log in to apply the changes.

Restore default Music folder icon in Properties

1. Open the current location of the Music folder (eg " C: UsersBrink ") in File Explorer.

Open the Music folder in File Explorer

2 Right-click or hold and hold the Music folder and click Properties.

3. Click the Customize tab and click the Change Icon button .

Click the Customize tab

4. Click the Restore Defaults button .

Click the Restore Defaults button

5. Click OK to apply the changes.

Restore default Music folder icon in desktop.ini file

1. Press the Win+ keys Rto open Run , copy and paste % UserProfile% Musicdesktop.ini into Run and click OK to open the file.

Note : If you have changed the default location of the Music folder, then you will need to replace % UserProfile% Music in the path above with the actual full path corresponding to the current location of the Music folder.

2. On the IconResource = line in the desktop.ini window, change the full path to:

%SystemRoot%system32imageres.dll,-108

Note : If there is no line IconResource = , then you will need to add it.

Change the path on the line IconResource = in the desktop.ini window

3. Click File (menu bar), click Save ( Ctrl+ S) and close the desktop.ini window.

Click File> Save

4. Restart the explorer or logout process and log in to apply.