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I use some folders as a dashboard to get to commonly used folders. A good example of this is my ‘Media’ partition. Here, I have my Music, Video, Pictures, and other folders. In this guide, you’ll learn how to customize your folder icons to achieve something similar to Figure 1.

Figure 1 – Customized Folder Icons

This guide is included as part of the Windows Guides Customize Windows Vista Explorer Series. Please visit the main page if you would like to learn why this guide may be useful.

Customizing Folder Icons

To change your folder icons, do the following:
1. Right click on the folder you want to customize the icon for and select Properties

2. Select the Customize tab and click on Change Icon…

3. Select an Icon or browse for your own (get thousands of icons here)

4. Press OK on both screens and you are done.

Note: To view larger icons in Windows Explorer, click the Views button, on the toolbar, until you get to large icons.

This guide comes from the ‘Windows Vista – Customization Manual’ [Download a copy now]. The customization manual runs over the basics of customizing your Windows Vista machine to make it more personal. This guide is free of charge to all mintywhite.com readers.

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Rich is the owner and creator of Windows Guides; he spends his time breaking things on his PC so he can write how-to guides to fix the problems he creates.

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