folder icons

I rebuilt the cache many times, and tried every voodoo command I found, but I have never been able to get all my icons to show properly on Windows 11 since I installed it in June. The icons with the issue are RANDOM and CHANGING.

Windows 11 can feel polished to the point of politeness—tight corners, muted animations, and a productivity-first posture that sometimes leaves personality and whimsy on the cutting-room floor. Fortunately, the platform’s openness has cultivated a lively third-party ecosystem: small...

So, yesterday I wanted to get some icons out of Windows like recycle bin icon, etc. I know that they are stored in shell32.dll and imageres.dll libraries, so I found them and opened in Resource Hacker. In my surprise, there was no icon data at all! I even checked it through HxD and other raw...

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 in File Explorer of hard drive. They are yellow when viewing the File Explorer of a USB drive. How do I get the yellow ones back??

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...

Hi all, Using Windows 7 Home Premium. I mapped a drive for OneDrive, now I am trying to change the icon in Windows Explorer. I saved the OneDrive.ico file from Temporary Internet Files. I right-clicked on the folder icon and selected Properties I clicked on the Customize Tab I clicked on the...

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...

Hello. we are trying to implement a group policy that would redirect employees desktops to a server share. When we look at the existing shares, we find that some employees already have a desktop folder (whcih we assume is from random people saving backup copies of their desktop items). There...

My desktop background became solid black colors and can only select from solid colors. Even if I select image it still shows solid color and thumbnail of image in win7/personalization does not work. (look at image 1 below) another problem all folder, video and image thumbnails dont work (look...

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...

Hi everyone.. I know that when I customize a folder icon, a desktop.ini file will be created inside that folder, but if I assign a picture of that folder in (folder pictures panel) where are these data saved? Because when I put this folder in another PC the picture is missing, and goes to...

All my files that uses a small folder icon seems to have just vanished. Is there any way to restore it? Here's a screencap below. Link Removed Notice that there's no folder icon next to the "File Folder" types like Intel or Program Files. It's just blank. Even the icon next to "New Folder" is...

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...

My desktop folders used to have customised icons but the folders are now being run off the server not my actual computer. I can't get the icons to change back to my customised ones. I have tried going into properties > customise > choose file and it's not working. The icon doesnt show up. One of...