My Pictures folder...CHANGE THE ICON

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FLKULCHAR

Is there a way to change the icon fo the "My Pictures" folder under
Desktop\Documents and Settings\Francis Kulchar\My Documents

It seems windows wants to prevent this from happening! I realize I could
create a new folder, say My Pictures1...

then copy the contents of My Pictures to the new folder...then it would
work, but my My Pictures folder has 11,368 files within 318 folders!

Thanks,

FLKulchar
 
FLKULCHAR said:
Is there a way to change the icon fo the "My Pictures" folder under
Desktop\Documents and Settings\Francis Kulchar\My Documents

It seems windows wants to prevent this from happening! I realize I
could create a new folder, say My Pictures1...

then copy the contents of My Pictures to the new folder...then it
would work, but my My Pictures folder has 11,368 files within 318
folders!

Thanks,

FLKulchar
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Did you miss my previous reply?

The trial version of the following software
worked for me:

Icon Software - IconChanger 3.8
http://www.shelllabs.com/icon_software.htm

Info from the site:
The evaluation version of IconChanger can change no more
than 3 icons and is limited to finding a maximum of 3000 icons,
however, with the registered version of this software you can
change and find an unlimited number of icons

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
It's easier to change the 'My Pictures' folder icon directly:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\DefaultIcon

Enter the full path to an icon file, like this:
C:\Path to\icon.ico

For an exe or dll file, add ",0":
C:\Path to\file.dll,0

For either, do not add quotes.


ju.c
 
Change Icon's final version is:

Change Icon 1.2.1http://home.nordnet.fr/~pmdevigne/Logiciels/ChangeIcon/ChgIconE.zip

ju.c
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Let's see...

Fill out a bunch of personal information on some web page, download
some zip file, run some unknown executable that does something you may
not fully comprehend,

or...

edit a text file and at the same time get an education about how the
desktop.ini file works.
 
PA said:
Did you miss my previous reply?
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[He usually does, also in forums.]
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Thanks...

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
How to Change the 'My Pictures' Folder Icon

The folder icon data is stored in a hidden file
called "Desktop.ini". This file is located inside
the folder.

This is the default 'My Pictures' Desktop.ini file,
if it does not exist, create it using Notepad. After
saving, right-click it, select Properties then check
the "Hidden" box. (Enter your user account name in
place of {username})

[DeleteOnCopy]
Owner={username}
Personalized=39
PersonalizedName=My Pictures
[.ShellClassInfo]
[email protected],-12688
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\mydocs.dll
IconIndex=-101

To change the icon, just enter the path to the new
icon after "IconFile=". Delete the "IconIndex=-101"
line.

Examples:

- For .ico files:
IconFile=C:\Path To\file.ico

- For .dll and .exe files:
IconFile=C:\Path To\file.dll
IconIndex=0


ju.c
 
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