If you want to customize your Windows XP desktop and add a new, interesting effect, you can make your desktop icons have a background color. You can use the advanced settings of the Appearance menu to ...

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Microsoft has started rolling out new Fluent-based icons for Windows 10 apps and system applications to Insiders on the Fast Ring. Starting today with the Windows 10 Mail and Calendar icons, Microsoft ...

Want to download a free Windows Icon Pack? An Icon Pack, as the name itself suggests, is a pack of new icons for the apps stored on your PC or phone. Normally an icon pack contains thousands of icons ...

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Microsoft has been working to unify the design language for many of its apps and services, and though we've only officially seen those design elements come to Office apps, Windows 10 apps are also set ...

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