Robbert

well, it worked, but in a pretty strange way.
at first it didn't work at all, but it changed the icon after 5 minutes or
so..
ah well, it worked, thanks a lot =)

"Keith Miller MVP" wrote:

> The Music folder gets its special icon via the 'desktop.ini' file. It's a
> simple text file with a .ini extension. It is normally flagged as 'Hidden'
> and 'System'. If it doesn't exist in the folder, create it in notepad.
> It's contents should be:
>
> ---------------------
> [.ShellClassInfo]
> LocalizedResourceName=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21790
> InfoTip=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12689
> IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-108
> IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
> IconIndex=-237
> [LocalizedFileNames]
> Sample Music.lnk=@%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21806
> -------------------
>
> In order for Explorer to process the contents of a 'desktop.ini' file, the
> folder must have its 'Read-Only' attribute set. Open a command prompt
> window to the parent folder (C:\Users\<UserName>) and type the following
> command:
>
> attrib +r muziek
>
>
> --
> Good Luck,
>
> Keith
> Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
>
> "Robbert" <Robbert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BD88E898-8E1A-474E-A52C-46F01C247155@microsoft.com...
> > Ok I've got this problem:
> > The User folders, containing documents, pictures, music, video's and stuff
> > normally normally have nice specific icons for each folder, like most
> > folders
> > in the picture:
> > [img=http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/3231/foldermk3.jpg]
> > Now, the normal music folder used to be 'music' (red). But I changed it to
> > 'muziek' (blue), because I created 'muziek' in C:\program files\muziek,
> > which
> > I was used to. But the new muziek folder didn't have one of these
> > nice-looking icons, just a standard folder-icon.
> > So my question is: how do I give this folder the icon it should have?
> > Because you change the icon of these folders, unlike normal folders.
>
>