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The easiest way to do this is open up a Cygwin terminal (as an administrator) and type the command:

chere -i -t mintty -s bash

If the icon doesn't show, you can use the following (Windows 10) from within a cygwin window:

regtool -w -s set /HKCU/Software/Classes/Drive/Shell/cygwin64_bash/Icon 'C:\cygwin64\Cygwin-Terminal.ico'
regtool -w -s set /HKCU/Software/Classes/Drive/Background/Shell/cygwin64_bash/Icon 'C:\cygwin64\Cygwin-Terminal.ico'
regtool -w -s set /HKCU/Software/Classes/Directory/Shell/cygwin64_bash/Icon 'C:\cygwin64\Cygwin-Terminal.ico'
regtool -w -s set /HKCU/Software/Classes/Directory/Background/Shell/cygwin64_bash/Icon 'C:\cygwin64\Cygwin-Terminal.ico'

And to remove the icon:

regtool -w unset /HKCU/Software/Classes/Directory/Shell/cygwin64_bash/Icon
regtool -w unset /HKCU/Software/Classes/Directory/Background/Shell/cygwin64_bash/Icon
regtool -w unset /HKCU/Software/Classes/Drive/Shell/cygwin64_bash/Icon
regtool -w unset /HKCU/Software/Classes/Drive/Background/Shell/cygwin64_bash/Icon

If you don't have admin privileges, you can do the following:

Go to your "Send To" folder

C:\Users\<your_user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

Create a shortcut "Bash Here" with this target:

C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -l -c "cd \"$0\" ; exec bash"