file folders

[nancy]

Iwas wondering if anyone knew if you can change to color
or style of the file folder on the screen.

I have tried everything


Thanks

Nancy

 

[Carl Fenley]

If you mean the open folder window, I notice that if I right-click on a
blank area of an open folder, I get a pop-up menu with the option to
'Customize This Folder'.

Now, I don't have Active Desktop enabled on my machine, and don't wish to
have it, but it appears the 'Customize This Folder' wizard would allow me to
use an HTML template, which might allow you to do what you want.

On the other hand, if you're talking about changing a yellow folder icon to,
say, a green folder icon; I think you would have to create that icon or
download it from somewhere, then use it in a shortcut.

Just an idea... I admit that I don't tinker with my folders or icons too
much.

- carl

 

[Gary Smith]

Iwas wondering if anyone knew if you can change to color
or style of the file folder on the screen.

I have tried everything

Evidently you haven't tried this:

This is an example using a file (shell32.dll) that is certain to be on
your computer. Following the steps will change a "regular" folder icon
from a plain tan folder icon into a Globe icon. Also included is
information on how to use your own IconFile, since Windows does not ship
with any colored folder icons.

- Create a New Folder
- Click Start > Run, type CMD, and in the command windows, type
attrib +s {FolderName}
or
Right-click on the New Folder, choose Properties, in the Attributes
section click Read-only, click Apply, click OK to Apply Changes to this
Folder only
- Right-click in the file list control area of the folder in question and
choose New > Text Document
- Double-click New Text Document and add the following three lines:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=C:\WINNT\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=13

- Choose File > Save As... and in the File name box type the following
name, with the double-quotes: "desktop.ini"

- Click Save, and then close desktop.ini. You can delete "New Text
Document"

- Refresh Explorer using the F5 key. You may need to do this several
times before the new icon displays. And if the icon has not changed
after 4 or 5 refreshes, close all running instances of Explorer, and
then open Explorer.

To customize the folder icon using your own icon follow these rules to
edit the values in your desktop.ini.

IconFile = The file name that contains the icon to show for the folder. It
can be an ICO or a BMP file, as well as EXE or DLL file that contain
icons. You must use the fully qualified path unless the IconFile is in the
same folder as the desktop.ini file.

IconIndex = The index of the icon in the file just specified. Set it to
zero if you are using an ICO or BMP file. If you are loading the icon from
a file that contains multiple icons, such as EXEs or DLLs, use the ordinal
0-based position of the icon within the file. In the above example, we
used an icon in shell32.dll with an ordinal 0-based position of 13.

For more information on the desktop.ini see:

Customizing Folders with Desktop.ini
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e...hell_basics/shell_basics_extending/custom.asp>

Customizing your Computer in Desktop.ini
<http://www.geocities.com/registrylord/desktop.txt>