Windows XP Folder Icon Settings

Are you tired of facing the constant folder icon and blank background every day? Do you want to change something new? Let us come to DIY your own folder icon and background!

First, a folder icon can be used as a friend of Windows XP. In the "My Documents", there is "My Music", "My Video", "My Video", “ Picture collection & rdquo; and other 3 folders, their icons are different from other folders. The same is the folder, why are they different? In fact, there is a hidden file named Desktop.ini under these folders, and it is precisely because of the existence of these desktop.ini files that these folder icons can show different effects. Let's take a Desktop.ini file from the author's computer as an example to show you the true face of the mountain (Figure 1).
Figure 1 Icon Desktop.ini File

The folder icon can be changed to the part in the box in Figure 1. Its general format is as follows:

[.ShellClassInfo]

InfoTip=Icon File Comment

IconFile=Path to Icon File

IconIndex=Select the first icon in the file to use

Know these We can edit a Desktop.ini file to make the folder icon it is in the form we want. For example, open Notepad to edit the following content:

[.ShellClassInfo]

IconFile=%ProgramFiles%\\Windows Media Player\\wmplayer.exe

IconIndex=0
< After saving to Desktop.ini, I found that the folder icon it is in has become the icon of Windows Media Player. Since then, the dull folder icon has become rich and colorful, how is it, is it very embarrassing?

In fact, in Windows XP, there is another way to achieve this function more simply. Right click on the target folder, open the properties dialog box, click the “Customize” tab, and click ““Change icon” after the “folder icon” option will pop up “for folder type” The target folder name change icon & rdquo; dialog box (Figure 2), where the user can select a variety of icons for the folder, the system default icon file is %SystemRoot%\\system32\\SHELL32.dll, of course, if If you are not satisfied with these icons, you can click the "Browse" button to customize the icon file. The extension can be .exe, .dll, .ico, etc.
Figure 2 Icon Selection

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Essentially, the two methods are the same. In the second method, the system also generates a desktop.ini file in the target folder, which is controlled by the icon of the folder controlling the desktop.ini file.

Second, easy to get the folder background When you open a folder, it is a picture of your favorite background instead of a blank space by default in Windows, then your mood is absolutely good. Much more. Is there a way to achieve this effect? Of course there are.

Open Notepad and edit the following:

[ExtShellFolderViews]

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

IconArea_Image= The path of the background image (such as C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Documents\\My Pictures\\sample image\\Blue hills.jpg, the image is preferably in JPG or BMP format)

Save as Desktop.ini Exit later. Refresh it and get there.

Figure 3 Editing the Desktop.ini file

Of course, we can also merge the above two Desktop.ini files (Figure 3), so that we can receive DIY The dual effect of the folder icon and background. I believe everyone should see such a folder should be much easier!