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Re: User Folder Icons
You're welcome. Glad it's sorted.
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Good Luck,
Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
"Robbert" <Robbert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:56818DF7-0494-4755-B0B9-9068A8C53A0A@microsoft.com...
> 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.
>>
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