User Folder Icons

[Guest]

Ok I've got this problem:
The User folders, containing documents, pictures, music, video's and stuff
normally normally have nice specific icons for each folder, like most folders
in the picture:
[img=[URL]http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/3231/foldermk3.jpg[/URL]]
Now, the normal music folder used to be 'music' (red). But I changed it to
'muziek' (blue), because I created 'muziek' in C:\program files\muziek, which
I was used to. But the new muziek folder didn't have one of these
nice-looking icons, just a standard folder-icon.
So my question is: how do I give this folder the icon it should have?
Because you change the icon of these folders, unlike normal folders.

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

The Music folder gets its special icon via the 'desktop.ini' file. It's a
simple text file with a .ini extension. It is normally flagged as 'Hidden'
and 'System'. If it doesn't exist in the folder, create it in notepad.
It's contents should be:

---------------------
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21790
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12689
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-108
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-237
[LocalizedFileNames]
Sample Music.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21806
-------------------

In order for Explorer to process the contents of a 'desktop.ini' file, the
folder must have its 'Read-Only' attribute set. Open a command prompt
window to the parent folder (C:\Users\<UserName>) and type the following
command:

attrib +r muziek

 

[Guest]

well, it worked, but in a pretty strange way.
at first it didn't work at all, but it changed the icon after 5 minutes or
so..
ah well, it worked, thanks a lot =)

The Music folder gets its special icon via the 'desktop.ini' file. It's a
simple text file with a .ini extension. It is normally flagged as 'Hidden'
and 'System'. If it doesn't exist in the folder, create it in notepad.
It's contents should be:

---------------------
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21790
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12689
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-108
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-237
[LocalizedFileNames]
Sample Music.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21806
-------------------

In order for Explorer to process the contents of a 'desktop.ini' file, the
folder must have its 'Read-Only' attribute set. Open a command prompt
window to the parent folder (C:\Users\<UserName>) and type the following
command:

attrib +r muziek


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

Ok I've got this problem:
The User folders, containing documents, pictures, music, video's and stuff
normally normally have nice specific icons for each folder, like most
folders
in the picture:
[img=[URL]http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/3231/foldermk3.jpg[/URL]]
Now, the normal music folder used to be 'music' (red). But I changed it to
'muziek' (blue), because I created 'muziek' in C:\program files\muziek,
which
I was used to. But the new muziek folder didn't have one of these
nice-looking icons, just a standard folder-icon.
So my question is: how do I give this folder the icon it should have?
Because you change the icon of these folders, unlike normal folders.

 

[Keith Miller MVP]

You're welcome. Glad it's sorted.


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

well, it worked, but in a pretty strange way.
at first it didn't work at all, but it changed the icon after 5 minutes or
so..
ah well, it worked, thanks a lot =)

The Music folder gets its special icon via the 'desktop.ini' file. It's
a
simple text file with a .ini extension. It is normally flagged as
'Hidden'
and 'System'. If it doesn't exist in the folder, create it in notepad.
It's contents should be:

---------------------
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21790
InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12689
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-108
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-237
[LocalizedFileNames]
Sample Music.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21806
-------------------

In order for Explorer to process the contents of a 'desktop.ini' file,
the
folder must have its 'Read-Only' attribute set. Open a command prompt
window to the parent folder (C:\Users\<UserName>) and type the following
command:

attrib +r muziek


--
Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

Ok I've got this problem:
The User folders, containing documents, pictures, music, video's and
stuff
normally normally have nice specific icons for each folder, like most
folders
in the picture:
[img=[URL]http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/3231/foldermk3.jpg[/URL]]
Now, the normal music folder used to be 'music' (red). But I changed it
to
'muziek' (blue), because I created 'muziek' in C:\program files\muziek,
which
I was used to. But the new muziek folder didn't have one of these
nice-looking icons, just a standard folder-icon.
So my question is: how do I give this folder the icon it should have?
Because you change the icon of these folders, unlike normal folders.