Folder Thumbnails

[angelbabyuk]

Can you change a thumbnail of a folder to display an icon or picture of whats inside? For example, if I had a folder of pictures of Madonna, the thumbnail would have a picture displaying MAdonna's face rather than a boring old folder icon.

[RWSchlatter]

one way is to create a own custom folder following the description in:
<a target="_blank" href=http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/73/>http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/73/</a>
you can freely design the icon to replace the folder icon.

probably easier is the following way:

in Windows Explorer menu Tools&gt;View change the options to view both system and hidden files.

then go into the folder you wish to customize. Open its Desktop.ini file in a text editor (Notepad is fine).
Adjust the settings shown below to your liking (don't drop other info in the section but not listed in the lines below):

[.ShellClassInfo]
InfoTip=Stores your pictures
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\System32\mydocs.dll
IconIndex=-101

Reset your folder view options in WIndows Explorer.


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Regards - Richard