Folder Background - Change

How to Change Folder Background with AveFolderBG for Windows 7​

I happened upon the fix awhile back that enabled Folder Backgrounds in Windows 7 and have since fixed AveFolderBG to work with Windows 7

   Warning

It is recommended to create a restore point before doing this in case a mistake is made, or you do not like the results.

This way you could quickly do a System Restore with the restore point to undo it.

The application works by adding itself to the Folders Property pages. Just Right-Click a Folder, Choose Customize this Folder, or click Properties and you will be presented with a new menu tab.​

The fix has a few side-effects such as Tiles are no longer an option under view and is switched to Extended Tiles. Auto Arrange is no longer disabled under Icon View. In some cases you may need to redo you Folder settings after applying the Install.​

   Note

To Install AveFolderBG:

• Download the 32-bit or 64-bit AveFolderBG ZIP file below for your same 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7.
• Extract (drag and drop) the AveFolderBGW732bit or AveFolderBGW764bit folder and it's contents from the ZIP file, and open it.
• Right click on the install.bat file and click on Run as administrator.
• When finished, restart the computer.

To Uninstall AveFolderBG:

• Right click on the unstall.bat file and click on Run as administrator.
• When finished, restart the computer.

32Bit AveFolderBG Download for Windows 7

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64Bit AveFolderBG Download for Windows 7

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Original Homepage for Aves Vista Background

Ave's Vista Apps​

 

[hartington]

Folder Images on domain workstations

Satisfactory on domain workstations running Windows 7 now. It was so easy with Windows 2000.
The master copy has install.bat run by Administrator which adds "Ave's FolderBG" to HKLM \Software... etc keys and installs and registers the vistaFolderBackground.dll as well as changing the admin HKCU keys.
The Default user is edited so that the script to alter the HKCU keys is run once the first time a new user logs in. This seems to be ok. We mainly use it for special folders e.g. DropBox folders on the server to show instructions etc. together with a common background image. These load as mapped drives to the workstations. We load the image file and the desktop.ini to these special folders with a vbscript. Users can't see or alter the image or desktop.ini files in these folders as they don't have the permissions and they are hidden and read-only.

 

[sharpnova]

Just an update, this no longer works in Windows 7.

Also after uninstallation, you cannot delete its folder as windows will claim it's in use, which means it wasn't uninstalled at all.