Vista - Folder Preview Picture Change

Dr. Zaius,

I created a folder with subfolders in it that had some PNG files in both in the same location as yours. I used a JPEG from the C:\Windows\Web\Wallpaper location for the preview picture for both the main folder and subfolders. I had to hit F5 on one of them to refresh the window, but they all changed to the preview picture. I updated the tutorial with these new findings. I hope it helps.

Nice workaround you found though.

Shawn

Hi, Here's the address of that "ordinary folder":

C:>Cool>Famous People>Sad But True Pictures>Our Country

This folder only contains pictures.

Borna

Borna,

I created the exact same folders with the same names and location as yours. I even threw in some pictures in the folder. It allowed me to change the display picture without any problems for all the folders. Strange and frustrating that you cannot. You might try temporarily relocating these folders into the C:\Users\(your username)\Pictures folder to see if they willl change there; or/so you can recreate new folders in the original location to see if that will help and transfer the pictures back over when done.

Shawn

Refreshing in and of itself didn't help, but it did give me an idea that turned out to work.



Going to properties/customize/change icon, clicking "restore defaults" then selecting the desired preview file as normal did the job. Inexplicably still have to restore the default icon again each time I want to change the preview image, but no biggie. Thanks for all your efforts Brink, and hopefully this will also work for you, Borna.

Dr. Zaius,

Glad you found a solution for your problem. Thank you for the feedback.

Shawn

Updated to add step 7 for problems with changing preview picture.
10-23-07

Shawn

I have a more elaborated question about the folder preview display:
Is it possible to have the preview show more than one picture by user definition?
I'll explain: some of my folders (mostly music folders containing albumarts) have multiple folders within them + songle MP3's not in folder.
Example: The folder: H:/Avril Lavinge will have 3 Folders within it (Say H:/Avril Lavinge/Under My SKin, H:/Avril Lavinge/My World and H:/Avril Lavinge/Let Go, along with these folders there are 3 more files, MP3, named 1.mp3, 2.mp3 and 3.mp3)
The subfolders are set the way I like it, with thumbnail preview all good. My question sums to this: Whenever viewing the master folder (i.e. h:/Avril Lavgine) the preview will show one of the sub-folder's preview (which is good), but in addition it will add MP3 icon previews as well.
Can I change the preview so it will show only the subfolders' albumart/thumbnails?
Thanks!

Hi Bitshifter,

Welcome to the forum.

Only if you put the MP3's in an additional subfolder in that folder.

Sorry,
Shawn

Thanks. That is what I thought. Oh well.

Hi, I've had a similar problem for a while now and didnt know where to turn

So I have alot of folders on my external hard Drive K: , mainly Music, videos etc. I want to change the preview picture to the album art jpeg/png in the folder. It just looks like this by default So
I try the 'Properties/Customize/Choose File' method but it doesnt seem to work. Even when I do Restore Default first.

The wierd thing is though, I tried the same thing with some folders in my internal drive C: and it works :/

So it seems only my external drive wont allow me to change the folder previews, any idea what I can do??