How can I change the icon for an individual file? For example, I have a phonelist.docx Word file on my desktop and would like to change the icon from the default Word icon to a telephone icon. How can that be done?
You could make a shortcut to the docx and change the icon on the shortcut (right click, properties, change icon).
Thanks for the tip.
Does that mean that it is impossible to change the icon for "real" files, only for shortcuts?
Well, you could change the icon for all .docx to a picture of a telephone or whatever (Change a File Types Icon in Windows 7) but not individually afaik, no.
... in other words: it is simply not possible to change the icon just for one individual file (file meaning file, not shortcut to a file) - correct?
If you were a programmer you could write an icon handler.
Apart from that it is impossible unless there is some third party tool that does it.
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