#COLORED FOLDER ICONS WINDOWS 7 PDF#

Closing WordsĬustomFolder is a useful software program for Windows to change folder icons quickly and add emblems to them. The new icons and emblems become available then for selection.

#COLORED FOLDER ICONS WINDOWS 7 PDF#

Similarly, you may add up to 85 new emblems in 85x85 PDF format to the Emblem folder. The icon files need to be named 01.ico to 24.ico. The developer website offers instructions on doing that but what you do is add folders with the numbers 3 to 8 in the program directory and place icon files inside the folder. The program comes with two folders full of folder icons it supports an additional six icon collections that you may add manually provided that you have access to folder icons. Using the program is a bit finicky as many of the icons of the interface are tiny and because it is often not clear what an icon does before you click on it. middle or top right, and place up to nine of them in each folder that you customize. You can select the position for the selected emblem, e.g. These range from adding numbers to various symbols. Besides that, it is possible to add emblems to the folder. In fact, the icon of the folder changes as well with that. The main interface displays the available colors, 40 in total, that you can select to become the new folder color.

You need to hold down the Shift-key in File Explorer and right-click on a folder to select the Custom Folder option from there. You may get a Windows Smartscreen warning when you run the installer. A check on Virustotal returned one hit from an obscure antivirus engines, likely a false positive. The program needs to be installed before it can be used. Previously reviewed Folder Colorizer comes to mind for the task, or the new application CustomFolder. Windows includes options to customize the icon of folders and to change folder pictures Windows administrators who want more control over the process may use third-party software to achieve that.

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