My folder icons are blurry / pixelated

by Folder Color Changer Website Team | Dec 8, 2023 | Help & Support

This issue relates to a rendering issue with Windows itself. To resolve the issue, simply restart your PC. (Please note only restarting Windows Explorer doesn’t work).

Drag & drop not working when running as administrator

by Folder Color Changer Website Team | Dec 5, 2023 | Help & Support

When you run Windows 11 Folder Color Changer as an administrator, the app runs with elevated privileges. This means that the app is running at a higher privilege level than Windows Explorer, which is responsible for handling drag and drop operations. As a result, drag...

Folder icons not updating/update slowly

by Folder Color Changer Website Team | Nov 21, 2023 | Help & Support

To force Windows Explorer to update folder icons, on the Tools tab click “Restart Explorer”. If that doesn’t work, on the Tools tab click “Rebuild icon cache”. Windows Explorer sometimes take a while to update folder icons, and if...

Folder icons in Quick Access/Home not updating

by Folder Color Changer Website Team | Apr 10, 2023 | Help & Support

As noted in the version history under 1.0.0.15, Quick Access/Home does not always reflect changes to pinned folder icons. When you browse to the applicable top level folder, the icon for the folder has indeed been updated. Starting with version 1.1 of Windows 11...