HOW DO I SEE APK ICON IN WINDOWS EXPLORER – SOLVED 100% WORK



How to show icon of apk file on my pc ? Having many files apk on my computer was very confused, I’m can’t remember the function of application, whether this application is game, tools, app or theme.
Nothing other way, the one solution to remember it easily is with showing icons of apk file, various way have been tried.
After do experimentation, trial and error, now my work was succeeded, How to show apk icon in windows , follow my tutorial below :
Note : Before you try this method, make sure that your computer was installed dotnet framework 4.5 if you don’t have this file or not yet install, you can download here (dotnet framework)
OK, follow step by step my instruction:
  1. First, Download Apkshellext in googledrive here or mirror here
  2. Extract downloaded file, you can see there are 4 file : Apkshellext.dll, install, uninstall, restart explorer.
    pic of apkshellext download
  3. Right click file “install” > Run as Adminstrator > Yes.
  4. Wait untill process finish, just a few second
  5. After finish, clik file”restart explorer” to apply the effect
  6. Now, try to browse using windows explorer and woow… icon of apk files was appear
    pic of apk icons in windows explorer

SOME ERRORS THAT MAY OCCUR AND HOW TO SOLVE IT!

  • If you error like this “RegAsm : error RA0000 : Could not load file or assembly ‘file:///C:\apkshell\apkshellext.dll’ or one of its dependencies. operation is not supported.” see picture below!
    pic of apkshellext errorThe Solution is Right click file”apkshellext.dll” then click unblock, see image below
    pic of apkshellext unblockThen try again to run file “install”, Restart explorer, and see the effect
  • If the above problem was solved, but you still can’t see apk icon, such as blank or other icon, try this trick
    Open registry editor Delete folder “.apk” (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.apk) see image belowpic of registry apkiconRun again “install” After delete folder .apk in registry
    Restart explorer
    Now, you can see icon of apk file using windows explorer your pc
Any problem, leave your comment!