How to Use Emoji in Windows 10 File Names and Folders

[The AchieVer]

How to Use Emoji in Windows 10 File Names and Folders 

 

Let’s face it. No matter if we like it or not, emoji is something that we have to live with, and there’ a high chance the whole concept would evolve even more in the future given how much support it receives from both users and tech companies.

Microsoft itself has already embraced the emoji push, and the latest Windows 10 versions come with support for these smiley faces built-in.

There’s an emoji picker, which you can invoke with a simple keyboard shortcut, and the touch keyboard on the OS comes with its very own key to easily insert a new emoji.

And what’s more, Windows 10 feature updates introduce new emoji, as Microsoft wants its operating system to be in line with all the other platforms on the market, including Android and iOS.

But while smiley faces themselves can be used in conversations, either in emails or in chats, you can actually use them to spice up the way files stored on the device are called.

I remember that the first time I used this trick was on an old iPhone where I turned to smileys for the names I configured for my app folders. This way, I added a shopping cart emoji to my shopping apps folder, a pizza emoji for the apps I used for ordering pizza, so you get the idea.
 

 

 

Doing the same thing in Windows 10 is not at all difficult, and thanks to Unicode support, the operating system can properly read file names and display the emoji pretty much everywhere.

First and foremost, in order to include a smiley face in the name of a file or folder, it’s enough to simply select this item and when writing down the new name, press the hotkey to launch the emoji picker. It’s Windows key + ; and it lets you choose from a wide variety of smile faces, including kaomoji and simple symbols. Choose one and it should be added to the file or folder name automatically.

On a touch device, if you’re using the touch keyboard to type, there’s the dedicated button right in the keyboard interface. Also, if the aforementioned hotkey doesn’t work, you can use the keyboard on screen feature to rename the feature, and this way you’re going to get an emoji key as well.

The smiley faces are then displayed throughout the operating system, no matter which one you picked, albeit it goes without saying that they are more or less easy to notice depending on the system theme and the colors that you configured on the OS.
 

 

 

On the other hand, keep in mind that copying or transferring files with emoji in their names from Windows 10 to a different platform could actually cause compatibility issues, especially if the operating system we’re talking about is something much older like Windows XP.

The steps detailed here work in pretty much any Windows 10 version that still receives support for consumers – that’s Windows 10 version 1803 (April 2019 Update) and newer, including the upcoming May 2019 Update, or version 1903.

I tested the same tutorial on Windows 10 20H1 builds and everything’s working like a charm, so there’s a high chance Microsoft won’t change anything about this in the coming years.

For now, however, emoji just seem to be here to stay, so expect even further improvements in the coming Windows 10 feature updates. The next stable release for Windows 10 users is the May 2019 Update due next month, while the 20H1 update that I was talking about earlier is scheduled to go live in the spring of 2020.

 

 

 

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[TrojanK]

21 minutes ago, The AchieVer said:

Windows key + ;

Windows key + . works too (on Win 10 v1803 RS4 April 2018 Build 17134.1)

[The AchieVer]

1 minute ago, TrojanK said:

Windows key + . works too (on Win 10 v1803 RS4 April 2018 Build 17134.1)

 

That’s great.

 

Regards