Hi JBruno,
As follows 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 in information on how to use your own
IconFile, since Windows does not ship with any colored folder icons.
- Create a New Folder
- 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
--
Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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: "J Bruno" <jbruno AT materia-inc DOT com>
: Wrote in message : Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 04:04 PM
: Is there a way to change the folder icon or color? Not the
: way the folder looks once opened, but the external folder
: icon. I want to color code them.
