how to change color of itunes icon

I've done this but when I open iTunes to use it it the new icon flashes (in the taskbar) and then itunes opens with the default one... I'm not sure why it's doing that or why the one that actually opens is using the default instead of what I set.

Ideas?

Totally agree that the iTunes RED icon color is awful. RED means stop, error or failure.

Just plain blue is so much easier on the eyes. Blue is soothing and calm. Like a blue sky or blue lake.

The decision to go with a "reddish" icon for Itunes 12 is not so great for my purposes - it looks like I am running one of my recording programs (those change to a red icon when turned on). I know how to change icons in general but would prefer to stick with an actual 'itunes" one if possible. As long as it's not "reddish" (in spite of this descriptor being used by Apple, in my book, it is indeed RED)

You can download the blue icon by clicking the Download ICO button on the page below. Make note of the folder you save it in.

http://www.iconarchive.com/show/stock-icons-by-hamzasaleem/iTunes-icon.html

Then in Windows, right-click on the red icon, choose Properties, click the Change Icon button, click the Browse button and navigate to the folder where you saved the blue ICO file. Choose the new icon, Open, OK, Done! These instructions were tested on Windows 7 but should be similar in other versions. Hope that helps!

For those with OS X, a matter of copy/paste was a corrective action.

So to do the same for the iTunes Windows version would fix it.

If you have an older version of iTunes, that is a source of a blue icon.

So I see a method now appears above.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

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This simple trick appears to only be able to change icons on the desktop or in the Start menu. When the application is running on the taskbar, Windows obtains that icon in a different manner.

There is a more involved way to change the icons on the taskbar I found below if interested, but I won't be spending the effort on this myself.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/28847/how-to-customize-your-windows-7-taskbar-ico ns-for-any-app/

I did some more digging and this post helped. I had to do a restart but it works now. *whew*

Mostly trying to figure this out for a friend who has trigger issues with certain colors or something.

But... fixed. 🙂