A little FrontPage fun trick for those that like to tinker.

[Steve Easton]

For those who have disk based webs, located in My documents\My webs or
some other place on the drive.

What makes your web folder have the blue globe is a hidden desktop.ini
file
contained inside the folder.
Set your machine to show hidden files and you'll see it.

Opened in Notepad it contains this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

If you have made a favicon.ico file for your website and it's in the
root folder, change the line:
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
to this:
IconFile=favicon.ico

You can also change the text in this line:
InfoTip=Stores your local web site
to read whatever you want, such as:
InfoTip=mywebsitename

Save the file and when your browsing for your web site in windows or
FrontPage, the blue globe folder icon will be replaced with your
favicon, and when you hover the mouse over the folder the text you
entered will show.

Hope someone has some fun with this.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
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[Wally S]

And it works. Thanks.

Wally S

 

[Steve Easton]

Also, repair / refresh your icons.
Control Panel > TweakUI > Rebuild Icons.


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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
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Funny

I have some folders which have the blue globe and when hovering over it the
tooltip states "Stores your local web site". But there is no file
"desktop.ini". (I have "Show hidden files" active.)

On another folder, I copied the code into "desktop.ini". This file appears,
but the blue globe doesn't, nor does the tooltip

;-)
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

For those who have disk based webs, located in My documents\My webs or
some other place on the drive.

What makes your web folder have the blue globe is a hidden desktop.ini
file
contained inside the folder.
Set your machine to show hidden files and you'll see it.

Opened in Notepad it contains this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

If you have made a favicon.ico file for your website and it's in the
root folder, change the line:
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
to this:
IconFile=favicon.ico

You can also change the text in this line:
InfoTip=Stores your local web site
to read whatever you want, such as:
InfoTip=mywebsitename

Save the file and when your browsing for your web site in windows or
FrontPage, the blue globe folder icon will be replaced with your
favicon, and when you hover the mouse over the folder the text you
entered will show.

Hope someone has some fun with this.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer

 

[Trevor L.]

Steve,
Just a follow-up.

When I wrote that desktop.ini was not present in certain folders, it didn't
show when "Show hidden files" was unchecked in Folder Options, but a search
of the folders under My Webs found it. Strange!!

By copying fpdbw.ico and setting up desktop.ini to refer to it, I got the
icons on the folders.

So all is well ))
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

The structure is
My Documents
My Webs
myweb
index.html
......... many other *.html ......
Martin
desktop.ini
index.html
myweb is the folder which has a globe but no desktop.ini
Martin is the "other" folder which has no globe but has deskop.ini
Contents of desktop.ini are:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

Folder Martin and Martin\index.html were not created in FP, but is
that relevant to Windows Exploerer ?

P.S. I ran Control Panel > TweakUI > Rebuild Icons.

Yes, I do like to tinker which is why this diversion interests me. I
have had success in getting the blue globe to appear before.
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

Are the "folders" the root folders for front page webs??



What kind of other folder??

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
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