After installation, restart VS Code and activate the icons if prompted. If not, manually navigate to File > Preferences > Theme > File Icon Theme and select “VSCode Icons” to apply the icon set.

For Windows NT 4.0 Microsoft rewrote 16-bit File Manager as a 32-bit application, while Wittenberg's work enabled it to run on 64-bit Windows with Visual Studio (VS) 2015 and 2017 support.