Make New Folders in Your Vista User Directory Use Matching Greenish Icons
Have you ever noticed that new folders that you create inside of your Home directory in Vista just look out of place? All the built-in folders have those stylish greenish icons, and your folders are ugly and yellow.
Fixing this is a really simple process… all we need is to know where to find the nice looking icons.
Changing Folder Icon to Match
The beauty of this tip is that you don't need to download anything at all. Just right-click on the folder, choose Properties:
Choose the Customize tab, and then click on the Change Icon button:
Now here's the trick… instead of the default shell32.dll file, we'll change that to use the icons in imageres.dll. You can paste in the full path if you'd like (or just find the imageres.dll file with the Browse button)
%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll
Once you've changed the text in the box, use the Enter key to update the list, and then if you scroll all the way to the right you'll find an empty green folder icon that matches perfectly.
And there we go… now we have nice matching folders:
Of course you could choose one of the other icons in the file if you want… it's all up to you. You can even use the Restore Defaults button to switch it back to the ugly yellow folders.
A quick one on this then:
Is there any way to have this make ALL new folders have the green icon or is that not possible?
Thanks again for all the help!
Or you could download this icon set and have every new folder even better customised: http://darkhiusaki.deviantart......k-44230022
From experience this is the best pack out there.
If you need more of the Vista style icons check out my gallery on deviant art. http://steelew.deviantart.com/gallery/ everything in it is free. Hope you like them.
Thanks, that's quite useful! The only drawback is that I don't think you get the small previews of files inside the folders, but that's not too bad since they're mostly aesthetic rather than useful anyway.
For some reason my "pictures" and "music" folders are a different icon and under customize theres no option to select a new icon. Is there anything I can do to change those back?
nice, just what i wanted!
Thanks for the tutorial , can you advice on the folder to use that puts a picture in the folder similar to when you use a folder for an album and the picture of the album is inside .
Cheers Dave
I use your site all the time for hints and tips, this is another great one. Thanks alot!
I have been using icons from gnome look website and converting to ico files from the png.
Lousy Vista!!! I just tried that, but the cool greenish ones are nowhere to be found! It's just a bunch of boring ones, and a tree…
Moral of this story = my Vista sucks. Bad Vista!!
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Lousy Vista!!! I just tried that, but the cool greenish ones are nowhere to be found! It's just a bunch of boring ones, and a tree…
Moral of this story = my Vista sucks. Bad Vista!!
"
Or you just didn't read how to do it
It's more easy to blame Vista then saying I'm to stupid to follow instructions.
After typing in the path or finding it with the browse button you must press enter within the window or it will not pull up the other set of icons.
Yes it is tricky until you know this path. Share the knowledge people the green folders have been found. They are mostly on the far right.
%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll
Otherwise, use Terraroforms stuff its awesome.