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 ...

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 ...

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 ...