folder icons

I recently got myself a new computer running Windows 11 rather than 10. Moving my files across I noticed that the folder images I used to distinguish my different folders (and tell me visually what's in them) are largely hidden away by the [non-transparent bits of the] yellow folder icons in...

When I set the zooming to 100%, the searches, saved games, favourites and user folder icons disappear, but if i set it to 125%, the icons display normally.

The folder icons that were yellow are now white on my hard drive. They are yellow when viewing the contents of a USB drive. How do I get the yellow ones back??

This is a fairly technical question involving modification of the registry, but:: Q. I have been able to change the default folder icon for Windows 10 across all folders, but, how do I set the icons so that the icon for a full folder is different from the icon for an empty folder? By default...

Hey, guys! I`m a Vista user. I do like to make some cool nature and people photos in my free time. As a result i have an ocean of folders and stuff on my computer. And vista actually offers kinda annoying folder icons and sometimes it literally makes me fell uncomfortable to find the folder with...

I am trying to control which thumbnails display on folder icons in my Pictures library. Right now, all of the folder icons show thumbnails of 2 pictures. There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to which 2 pictures are chosen (obviously that is not true, it just seems that way). I assumed that...

I've downloaded a custom theme for windows and custom folders , i then removed the themes and the folder icons are broken. Here are some screenshots that might help. http://i.imgur.com/jwNsTUZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g3PqQzh.jpg Would be much appreciated if someone could help me , ive...

Hello. I know basically how to create custom folder icons by right clicking on a folder to "properties" and "customize" "change icon" by using ico formated icons in Windows 7 64bit; but how do you keep the custom folder icons from disappearing when you move them to another computer? I did find a...

SWMBO has windows 7 on her PC, and does a lot of work with graphics. To make finding them easier she went to a lot of trouble putting a representative image on the icon for each folder in Windows Explorer (File manager to the over 40's). Each time she has done this however Windows 7 replaces...

A set of icons I made when I first got Windows 7 as an experiment in being able to see the full Album or Film cover. I then decided to go with the glass effect (Vista) folders and so dropped this project. Link Removed due to 404 Error I'd originally posted these elsewhere and subsequently...

Recently my Folder Icons have started to display incorrectly. They appear like this: I tried deleting the icon cache in hopes that Windows Explorer would recreate it hopefully fixing the problem. However Explorer never recreated the cache file. This has me worried that something is seriously...

Hi All, I have bought myself a new lapto - Sony - with windows 7 64bit installed on it. My old systme also have windows 7 but only with 32bit. Here is my problem. On the old system I could take the option Properties by rigth clicking on any folder and change the Icon from the windows...

In Windows Vista in the Pictures Folder, folder icons show 4 of the images from within the folder. In Windows 7 there are only 2 shown and these are only partially visible. How can I get back the Vista version of showing 4 of the images on the folder icon ?

saving NTUSER.DAT is easy, but how to restore it into current user account without restarting computer and having to create another account, login into that another account as administrator and copy file to that other account i am trying to restore NTUSER.DAT for ? There must be easier way to...

windows 7 dont autorefresh desktop icons sometimes but it refreshing folder icons all the time so i wonder if i can disable folder refresh or autorefresh ? reason why is because it makes me lost when i make new file and it moves it somewhere where i didnt create it :( kinda like XP had, u make...

Ok,is there any way to select for example 100 folders and set to all of them a default folder icon instead of the muic icon i set to my folders ? Or do i have to do change it one by one ? those icons are not some downloaded or my creation,those are windows music icons,but now i want to have...