Customizing a folder's icon?

Hi All

I would like to know how you can customize the thumbnail of any folder in Widnows 7? If I right click on a folder, it doesn't give me the option to choose my own icon for that folder.

I know how to change the default icon for all windows folder, but not for a single folder.

Thank You

This post by whs may be helpful to you :

Folder Icon - Change Default Icon

Edit :

DextrousDave said:

Hi All

I would like to know how you can customize the thumbnail of any folder in Widnows 7 .

Customizing the thumbnail preview of any folder is even easier . You just need a jpeg image that you want to look as the thumbnail preview. Put the image in the target folver, and rename it as Folder.jpg ; that's all.

Yup, just right-click the folder, select the "Customize" tab. There is a option there called "Folder Icons". You can change the folder icon there. Alternatively, you can choose a picture to show in the folder, on the icon, under the "Folder pictures" option.

The icon choice is extremely restrictive, but there we go.

Hope this helps.

You won't have a customize tab if you are going into properties via a library. You have to go in via the file system.

Every folder should have it

If you look at a folder via a library you don't get the customization tab. This is a folder via my documents library.



The same folder going via c:\users\keith\My Documents

you could change all your default yellow folders to something else like these