You have a spend a fair bit of time tinkering with the settings to disable all those unnecessary features and make it work as you want. It also completely changes how the start menu looks. Then again, do keep in mind that OpenShell adds a lot of functionality to both the Start Menu and File Explorer out of the box. This good thing is, you can follow the basic gist of this article to change the start button icon.
If you don’t want to pay for software then you can try Open-Shell, an open-source fork of Classic Shell. Trust me, I tried three different software and none worked better.
The reason I chose this software over other free software like Classic Shell is that they are either not supported any longer, don’t work properly in the latest Windows 10 versions, or way too cumbersome in terms of functionality and usability. StartIsBack is a paid software that costs $3.99 (one-time fee). If everything goes well, you will see your own custom start button icon in action. Select it and click on the “Apply” and “Ok” buttons to save changes. This will add the custom start button icon to the application. In the browse window, select the icon you just created and click “Open”.Ĩ. Once you have to custom image, open StartIsBack application and click on the little “+” add icon.ħ. I’m not that creative so please pardon the horrible icon.Ħ. In my case, this is the start image orb I created. After doing that, save the image in PNG format and close the image editing application. Make sure they are exactly centered in their own section.ĥ. Now, drag and drop your icon(s) into those three divided sections. The top, middle, and bottom parts represent default, hover, and pressed states.Ĥ. After creating the blank image, use the built-in ruler to divide the image into three equal parts vertically. Now, create a new transparent image exactly in the below dimensions depending on your DPI settings (Settings app → System → Display → Scale and Layout).ģ. Once you have the icon, open the image editing software of your choice. As for me, I will slightly change the one icon to represent different states.Ģ.
Note: If you want three different icons for three different states, then download three icons. In my case, I’ve downloaded a rocket icon from Flaticon.
To start off, if you haven’t already, download the icon of your choice. i.e, default state, hover state and pressed state.ġ. So, you have to manually create the start button icon.īasically, you have to create a custom start orb image that contains icons for three start button states. I tried to find some app that makes the whole process easy but couldn’t find one that works in Windows 10. If you want to add your own custom icon to the start button then you have to go through some hoops. Click on the “Apply” and “Ok” buttons to save changes.Īs soon as you do that, you should see the modified start button icon on the taskbar. So, please look properly and click on the decline button to have a clean installation.3.
Note: If you are getting a web based downloader to install CustomizerGod, please be advised that there are a lot of crapware that comes bundled with the app. Inside the Zip, there will be an executable file and it’s mandatory to have admin rights on the computer to run this application.
Once that’s done, extract it to a location and make sure you do it to a directory which you won’t delete or clean up accidentally.
To get started, head over to the CustomizerGod download page and download the ZIP file. The tool is noob-friendly, but still I would advise you to create a system restore point before you begin. As the name speaks, the app is like a God when it comes to customization of Windows 10 icons and using it you can change the settings of almost anything and everything.Įven for those who fear the word customization and think that they will eventually end up messing their Windows 10 installation, there’s nothing to worry about. But how about one single tool that brings everything under a single umbrella? It would be great, which brings me to the Windows 10 app I will be talking about today, i.e. Now, there are different tools available using which you can customize different elements of Windows 10.