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adding icons to folders. win 7

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samfisher1:
hi... yes i know you can right click and change the icon of "a" folder.

but im looking for  a way to add icons to 50+ anime collection..

in 3 catagorys
watched

watching

havent watched.

and im not going to put em in folders... its to annoying to reconfigure utorrent

i have tried to copy past the desctop.ini
  but it wont work :/



 and i have way tooo many folders to go one by one.

 and besides. there is only about 5 anime titles that i reconise they all look alike to me (joke on the all japanese look alike)

but never the less any help would be appreicated

btw
windows 7 ultimate 32.

_Jitsu_:
To the rescue!

Mark the folders, and:

1) right click -> propteries
2) customize tab

fork time!

3a) if you want to use an image file like gif or jpeg for an instance then you click "Choose File" from the "Folder pictures" tab
3b) if you have an .ico file (or an exe, dll library with an icon in it) the you click the last one

And yes, you're right. Setting image for the folder doesn't work for me either on x86 ultimate. Will try to crack it. Probably some size restriction that MS forgot to mention.

bork:
But if you mark them watched or not-watched, it ruins some of the fun.  I have a lot of series that I have collected but have not watched yet.  They looked good when I found one so I downloaded it with the intent of watching it later.  Now as I am going through what I have and I come across these shows that I have no idea what it is, I start watching it to find out whats it is, wonderful finds.  Its like a treasure hunt at times going through stuff.

x5ga:
and it doesn't work by copy/pasting the desktop.ini file? Weird. This is how the file needs to look in Windows 7:

--- Code: ---
[.ShellClassInfo]

IconResource=TheIcon.ico,0

--- End code ---

you would probably need 3 icon files (for each 'watched', 'watching' and 'not watched yet' status) and the associated 3 'desktop.ini' files. You'd then have to copy into each folder the icon file and the desktop.ini file, or you can put all 3 icon files in a separate folder and use an absolute path in the desktop.ini file like this:


--- Code: ---
[.ShellClassInfo]

IconResource=D:\Anime\StatusIcons\TheIcon.ico,0

--- End code ---

note that the header [.ShellClassInfo] and ',0' after the filename are both mandatory, even if the file specified contains just one icon.

If you're getting your icons from a .DLL or an .EXE file that have multiple icons inside them, the number after the comma should reflect the position of the icon you want (the first icon being number 0, the second - 1, third -2, etc.).

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