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Unable to change folder icons + folders showing the wrong icons
Hello! So I just signed up here because I'm desperate and don't know what to do.
So basically, I thought the windows 10 default folder icons were pretty bland and ugly so I decided to change them. I read that you could change your default icons by going into to registry and I did just that. Long story short, it didn't work so i deleted the registry folder that I had just created, like they said you could. I was very careful (or so I think) to not touch anything else
But now I'm worried I might have messed up somewhere because now I can't change icons for some of the folders I use. Not sure if this was a problem before that I didn't notice or if it's due to me messing around with things I don't understand.
As things are now, I can change icons for folders that I created but the folders that came with the system (like documents, music, movies, downloads etc) I'm currently unable to change. The thing is, I was able to change the folder icons just a while ago, so I changed them all by right clicking on the folder, choosing properties and then changing the icon, and that worked fine. Then I decided to just use the default icons anyway but I was only able to switch back some of them, and some of those now had the wrong folder icon. My "downloads" folder is just a blank white space for example and I'm unable to change it.
To show an example (I'm sorry the text is in swedish I hope you can somewhat understand):
Properties for an ordinary folder:
Properties for my music folder: Just a blank space where the "switch icon" should be!
I have tried to reboot my computer, I have tried top reset my icon cache, nothing seems to work. Does anyone know what I should do? I'm pretty much just ready to reset my whole system, but I'd prefer if I didn't have to. Any help is appreciated!