Hitterman
30-05-08, 06:37 PM
Got bored of folder's background? Here is some work for you. Adding a wallpaper picture as background to your file folders' file panes lets you easily recognize and differentiate folder windows in Windows Vista or in Windows XP - particularly if you have system backup folders on a removable disk or network drive with labels identical to the original drives on your own hard drive.Two steps for adding a wallpaper as background for folder's in Windows Vista.First of all resize your wallpaper picture to the size of your folder part or folder window size and then add wallpaper picture to a folder in Win Vista or in Win XP.The steps for this trick is given:
Open a folder in your computer, choose Tools > Folder > Options, and click the View tab
Select the option "Show hidden files and folders" (you may need to double-click Hidden files and folders first)
Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" (This step is recommended for this trick) and click Yes when you see the warning
Then click OK, and double-click the file named desktop.ini to open it in your text editor . If you can't find a desktop.ini file, launch Notepad from your computer.
In your text editor, type or copy:
Code:
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image=C:\My Documents\...\...(path to your image file)http://bp1.blogger.com/_Sr0R7SzDf1A/SD3QvmgU0JI/AAAAAAAAAyY/Es9t3XN2c0o/s320/desktop_ini.gif
If you're editing the file folder's existing desktop.ini file, save the edited file and close your text editor. If you created the file from scratch, save it with the name "desktop.ini" in the folder that will house the background picture; use quotation marks to keep Notepad from adding its default .txt extension.
Once you've created your desktop.ini file for folders in Windows Vista or in Windows XP, click Start > Run(In the case of Win XP) or open the start menu search box(In the case of Win Vista), type in the command line, ATTRIB +S "folder name" (e.g. ATTRIB +S " C:\Documents and Settings\[your userid]\My Documents") to activate the new settings.
Restart your computer and open the folder and see the fruits of your work.
Open a folder in your computer, choose Tools > Folder > Options, and click the View tab
Select the option "Show hidden files and folders" (you may need to double-click Hidden files and folders first)
Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" (This step is recommended for this trick) and click Yes when you see the warning
Then click OK, and double-click the file named desktop.ini to open it in your text editor . If you can't find a desktop.ini file, launch Notepad from your computer.
In your text editor, type or copy:
Code:
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image=C:\My Documents\...\...(path to your image file)http://bp1.blogger.com/_Sr0R7SzDf1A/SD3QvmgU0JI/AAAAAAAAAyY/Es9t3XN2c0o/s320/desktop_ini.gif
If you're editing the file folder's existing desktop.ini file, save the edited file and close your text editor. If you created the file from scratch, save it with the name "desktop.ini" in the folder that will house the background picture; use quotation marks to keep Notepad from adding its default .txt extension.
Once you've created your desktop.ini file for folders in Windows Vista or in Windows XP, click Start > Run(In the case of Win XP) or open the start menu search box(In the case of Win Vista), type in the command line, ATTRIB +S "folder name" (e.g. ATTRIB +S " C:\Documents and Settings\[your userid]\My Documents") to activate the new settings.
Restart your computer and open the folder and see the fruits of your work.