Tips for setting the system: Changing the common folder color

The folders you see in the Explorer are all a color. If we display the currently accessed folder in a different color, not only the daily files. Management is more convenient, and the "resource manager" is personalized.

preparations

To open a folder that appears as an icon different from others, can be used to capture the icons make their own tools to create a personalized icon has, of course, You can also download the icon that others have already done on the website.

replace the folder icon

specific change folder icon approach is:

1, open the Registry Editor

open the [Start] menu [Run] command, then enter "Regedit" to open the [Registry Editor]. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MacHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\WindowsCurrentVersion\\Explorer-ShellIcons; suppose you want to set the icon of the current folder to the fourth icon. If the key value "4" does not exist, just right click on the right window and select [New 】 → [string value], and the string value is named "4", and then the string value "4" is assigned to the location of your icon.

2, delete Shelliconcache (shell icon cache) file

for WindowsNT /2000 systems, it is generally in WinnT folder;

for Windows9x /WindowsXP systems It is generally in the Windows folder.

Shelliconcache file is a hidden file, you need to first perform attrib-h% systemroot% Shelliconcache to see it

3, restart

for WindowsNT /Windows2000-like operating systems In this case, just log out the user and log back in, but Windows9X/Me users need to restart the computer.