Hi Rick,
The following is how I do it on my Windows 2000 Professional computer. I can not be
absolutely certain this will work for you since I do not have a NT4 machine to test
it on, but a quick Google search makes me believe that it will. Also, I am not sure
if the following steps are exactly the same on a NT4 machine, however the steps are
basic, so...
Following the steps below will change a "regular" folder icon from a plain folder
icon into a Globe icon on a Windows 2000 machine. Not sure if the 0-based position
of the icon within NT4's shell32.dll is the same, however most likely it something
other than a yellow folder so you will be able to see a change. I have also
included in information on how to use your own IconFile.
- If necessary change your Explorer view settings as follows: Control Panel > Folder
Options > View [tab]: Uncheck: "Hide file extensions for known file types"
- Create a New Folder
- Right-click on the New Folder, choose Properties, in the Attributes section click
Read-only, click Apply, click OK to Apply changes to this folder only
- Right-click in the file list control area of your new folder and choose New > Text
Document
- Rename New Text Document to: desktop.ini
- Double-click desktop.ini, add the following three lines, and save the file:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=C:\WINNT\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=13
- Refresh Explorer using the F5 key. You may need to do this several times before
the new icon displays. If the icon has not changed after 4 or 5 refreshes, close
Explorer and then reopen it.
To customize the folder icon using your own icon follow these rules to edit the
values in your desktop.ini.
IconFile = The file name that contains the icon to show for the folder. It can be an
ICO or a BMP file, as well as EXE or DLL file that contain icons. You must use the
fully qualified path unless the IconFile is in the same folder as desktop.ini.
IconIndex = The index of the icon in the file just specified. Set it to zero if you
are using an ICO or BMP file. If you are loading the icon from a file that contains
multiple icons, such as EXEs or DLLs, use the ordinal 0-based position of the icon
within the file. In the above example, we used a file that contains multiple icons
(shell32.dll) and an icon in that file (a globe) that has an ordinal 0-based position
of 13.
For more information on the desktop.ini see:
Customizing Folders with Desktop.ini
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ing/custom.asp
Customizing your Computer in Desktop.ini
http://www.geocities.com/registrylord/desktop.txt
--
Carrie Garth, Microsoft MVP for Windows 2000
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: "Rick" <rki AT lilly DOT com>
: Wrote in message news:02ed01c3668c$ab642ef0$a401280a@phx.gbl
: Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 03:01 PM
: Not sure if it is possible, but I would like to change the
: folder icon or appearance so that when glancing through a
: large list of folders in windows explorer, you can see a
: visual difference from the rest of the multitude of yellow
: folder icons. (This is on a Win NT 4.0)
:
: Thanks!
