Change Windows 8 Explorer Ribbon Icons easily with Ribbon Icons Customizer

Ribbon Explorer is one of the new features introduced in Windows 8. The Ribbon Explorer makes it easy to access explorer functions and options. Ribbon Icons Customizer will let you change the icons on the Windows 8 explorer.

Ribbon Icons Customizer is a tiny tool that lets you easily change the default icons of Ribbon Explorer. With the help of this tool one can replace default icons of Ribbon with custom ones.

Ribbon Icons Customizer is able to change icons of copy, paste, cut, paste shortcut, move to, copy to, delete, recycle bin, recycle , permanently delete, zip, burn to disc, print, navigation pane, preview pane, invert selection, email, rename and new folder command icons present under Home, Share and View tabs. In short we can tell that it can change every icon of windows 8.

  

Options are also available to restore individual icons. If you have changed the default icon of Copy function, you can restore it to the original without affecting other icons.

Once you have downloaded the zip file, extract the contents. From the RIC folder, first run the Resources.reg registry fix and add its contents to your Windows Registry. The .reg fix basically only  takes ownership of some registry key/s and does not add any new one’s.

Now run the Ribbon Icons Customizer .exe file as administrator.

Its UI will offer you options to change the icons of almost all the options offered on the explorer ribbon. To use the Ribbon Icons Customizer, click on the desired button and browse to the the icon on your computer, that you want to replace it with new one. In the first tab, you can click the respective button of icon which you want to change.

For example, if you want to change the icon of copy, click “Change ‘Copy’ Icon”. Select the desired icon from the dialog box and click ‘Open’ to change the icon.

Select the icon that you wish to use and then click Open button to change the default ribbon icon with the new one. Once the icon is changed, you will see Successfully Changed message. We suggest you use Windows Phone style icons to enhance the look of the Ribbon.

Ribbon Icons Customizer supports both x86 and x64 versions of Windows 8.


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