Folders as icons, pictures as thumbnails

By the way, if to set a custom icon for a folder, Windows does not display it as live folder. I wonder if it is possible, to make ALL icons custom in the same sense?

Interesting icon scheme, are those the icons used in MMC?

Windows stores data for custom folder icons in a Desktop.ini file, which will be created in the folder that the user applies a custom icon to. I have never been able to get a Desktop.ini file to work simply by copying it from one folder to another; it must be generated by Windows. The only other alternative I could think of would be to right-click on every single folder and changing the icon in the customization tab under properties. So I'd say changing every folder to use a custom icon is probably not the best way to go, unfortunately.

Interesting icon scheme, are those the icons used in MMC?

Yes.


I think it is the theme initially developed for Longhorn, but later left unused because of introduction of live folders.

Anixx said:

By the way, I have recently changed the icon for the folders to this one. I like it more. The reg file is attached.

Looks good. I will give it a try. Thanks!

Great work, Anixx. I'll try it for myself.

I can't seem to find the "Typed Data Thumbnail Handler" extension in Windows 7 x64, though I did find it on Windows 8. I'll keep looking, maybe they renamed it. Could you perhaps post the CLSID for the extension?

CLSID: {7c67eb93-8eff-4e48-889f-45ba299bc46f}

Yeah, that CLSID doesn't seem to exist on Windows 7. Strange...