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I want to know how to change the default new folder icon (yellow one) in Win XP. When I make a new folder, I want it to have the my favorites icon.

NOURI

In Windows XP, it is possible to change the icons for a selected folder. You can do this by right-clicking the folder. Please go to the customise tab. You can select the templates for folders depending on the type of the files it is going to contain. You can choose a template for a folder containing picture, music, videofiles and document or ordinary files.

In the Folder pictures area, you can select the picture you want to be displayed in the thumbnails view. At the bottom of the Folder icons area is a button for Change Icon. When you click change icon, it displays the list of icons from the icons file. You can also have your own icons file apart from the default files stored in c:\windows\system32 folder.

You can browse and select the required iconsfile and select from that file. There are third party utilities too to makefolder icons look the way we want. One such is grafile's myFolder. A free download isavailable at the following link:http://www.grafile.com/software/ myfolder_free/myfolder_free.html (Size 1.91 MB).

Using this utility you can change the size and colour of the folder icon.

Solution by P. Natarajan

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