I have a shortcut to Windows Terminal in my Quick Launch bar, but it often does not show the icon, so I set out to fix it. This post documents what is needed.

This is how it used to look:

The approach to do this is as follows:

1. First, I got the icon from this specific link in the Microsoft Terminal GitHub repository
2. Then, I saved the icon to a path of on my PC. In my case, I saved it to d:\apps\icons (I use d:\apps as a folder for holding numerous programs that do not need to be installed)
3. Finally, I set the icon for the shortcut as below
   • Right click on the shortcut and click Properties

• From Properties, click on the button to “Change Icon”

• Finally, navigate to where you saved the file and select it and click on OK.

Once that is done, Windows will show the icon for the shortcut. Note that in this case, I was able to download a .ICO file – sometimes, you may only have a PNG file that you download. In that case, you can use a website such as https://convertico.com/ to convert the file to an ICO file.