Folder View For Music

[Paul B.]

I have my music stored as albums and when I was using XP I could set the
view to thumbnails and it would show the album art. With Vista 5472 you get
this partially opened folder with the picture stuck inside the folder kind
of view. Is there anyway to make it like the XP look? Thanks All.

 

[CH]

Paul--

Sure. Just take advantage of the over 2000 icons stashed in different files
in Vista or in any Windows OS. You can get about any look you want from the
native or instrinsic icons in Vista or XP.

Simply right click your Music folder>Change Icon>and in the first folder you
see which is E:\Windows\system32\imageres.dll by default, and at the lower
left is a pretty similar icon to the generic folder icon in XP. If you use
this same dialogue box but type in E:\Program Files\Windows Media Player
(for example) you can click the some of the .dll files and find icons in
there. You're not restricted--you can find a number of icons in many of the
System 32 .dll folders, Windows folders, your download folders, and by
adding favicon.ico to tens of thousands of urls, draggging the favicon onto
desktop, making sure to name the favicon something different>saving it in
its own folder and then reaching that folder from the same dialogue
box>browse as you build your icon collection.

If you want a specific looking folder, you can google for folder icons as in
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=folder+icons If you wanted a folder
with the Vista Start button for example, you could go to
http://www.vistatorrent.com/favicon.ico and drag that start button icon out.
MSFT has one site (something like VistaShowMe with sound that I can't locate
at the moment that has the same icon. Microsoft rarely has any favicons
however on their hundreds of sites.

Always remember to change the name of a favicons and put them in a folder
and they'll survive reboots and clearing temporary internet files.

CH

 

[Mike Williams]

Paul--

Sure. Just take advantage of the over 2000 icons stashed in different
files in Vista or in any Windows OS. You can get about any look you
want from the native or instrinsic icons in Vista or XP.

Except you *can't* get the flat appearance of the unique album art-per
folder view in XP.

 

[CH]

Yep, Mike per folder view may be limited to what the folder view gives you
in Vista. I could have sworn I read on the OP that he wanted and he
couldn't use Vista folder view ***as the vehicle to get it***.

Paul B wrote:

"I have my music stored as albums and when I was using XP I could set the
view to thumbnails and it would show the album art. With Vista 5472 you get
this partially opened folder with the picture stuck inside the folder kind
of view. Is there anyway to make it like the XP look? Thanks All."

" With Vista 5472 you get this partially opened folder with the picture
stuck inside the folder kind
of view. Is there anyway to make it like the XP look? Thanks All."

It looks to me like he doesn't want that folder partially opened--he wants
it closed.


You can't per folder view and my job in answering the post is to get what
the OP wants in a reasonable fashion at little time or financial cost to
him. His request was not confined to "getting the flat appearance *****per
folder view.**** His "eye on the prize" was getting a flat folder .


The request was to get the flat apperance of the icon. What the OP wrote
was that in XP he could get that view per folder view. That's 'cause the
icons in XP are different whether obtained per folder view or not. However,
if you want a different apperance there are litterally thousands of sites
where you could get the flat icon appearance--and folder view was a means to
his end.

So given that at this point, I can't pick up the phone or email the
appropriate Vista team although I can easily find them and dictate to them
to change the way folder view works, I would turn to the change icon
dialogue box via a right click>properties and if you use favicons or one of
the many 3rd party icon harvesters, ayk you can get whatever you want there.

I can find thousands of ways to get the flat icon appearance, and thousands
of urls that will do it if I want to take a little time playing with the
word folder in the url.

This does give me the chance to say though that I liked the simple
View>"show in groups">arrange by context menu for organizing folders and,
although you can do much the same thing with folders in Vista and has a
much more powerful search and virtual folders I think it would have been
helpful to some people to preserve a number of features that were in XP as
an option.

But when someone is focused on the appearance of an icon, the change icon
dialogue box and the ability to browse to .dlls, program folders (many
programs have ayk multiple folders filled with icons) and urls with
favicon.ico added to harvest an icon is a very useful alternative. You're
hardly limited by whatever Vista or any other OS does with their folder
view.

CH