For sure one quick and easy method to change desktop icon name without need to mess around with registry entries. It is a portable tool that allow renaming of desktop icons, that cannot be renamed using manual renaming routine as explained above. Utility to rename desktop iconsĭownload Desktop Renamer tool to easily change name of desktop icons including: recycle bin, my computer, my documents and my network places. Right click on the icon on desktop screen.ģ. This should work on all icons on Windows 7 desktop, while on majority of icons except few on Windows XP computer.ġ.

You can manually rename majority of icons on the desktop. Manual renaming of icons on Windows desktop With renaming you can customize icon text as per requirement that allow easier and faster access to icons on the desktop screen. Bored of usual names assigned to different icons on Windows desktop screen? You can easily spice up icon names / labels by renaming them to any desired name on Windows 7, Vista or XP computer.

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