Windows 7: Windows 7 Folder Background Changer : Change Any Folder’s Background

Windows 7 Folder Background Changer is a free tiny portable tool that allows you to change any folder’s background & text color in Windows 7/Vista.


How to use:

1. Run the tool as administrator. If you have run this tool for the first time then it will restart Explorer.
2. Click on Browse and browse for the folder of which you want to change the background/text color.
3. Click on Change Background Image and browse for the image that you want to set as the background of the folder.
4. Click on the Black color rectangle and select the color that you want to set as the text color of the folder.
5. If you want to display a shadow under the text of all the items in the folder, select Show Shadow Under Text. This option will only work with icons view.
6. If you want the style of this folder to be applied to all the sub-folders, select Apply To Sub Folders.
   

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Very nice. Have you tested it with Windows XP? I can, if you haven't.

Edit: Tried it on WinXP, didn't work too well, so transferring it over to Windows 7.

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I tried and left a comment on DA too, but it didnt work for me on Windows 7 HP x64

Thanks Kishan, love your tools. A Guy

Nice tutorial.. thanks man!

very nice...

please apply folder lybraries tutorial....

To do that, I will have to find a different way to save the settings. Currently it saves the settings in a file. That's the reason it doesn't work with Library, Computer, Network & all system folders which don't allow you to create any files inside them.

thank you...

@Prisoner You can do it in XP as well. The soft is pretty simple. For XP, you have to add few lines in Desktop.ini file which is sys hidden file in every single folder,

A sample example :
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image=D:\My Pics\Games\wallpaper_juiced_01_1280.jpg
iconarea_text=0x00FFFFFF

but its a hectic process if you to intend to do it for a couple of folders