Importin custom icons

[keytotime]

Does anybody know how I can automatically import my custom icons for folders?

[bucketbuster]

You need to put the icon into the desired folder. And edit the desktop.ini.

This is what the desktop.ini from My Virtual Machines-folder looks like:

[.ShellClassInfo]IconFile="vm_folder.ico"

IconIndex=0

InfoTip=Contains VMware virtual machine files.

ConfirmFileOp=0

[raskren]

There's no way to do it "automatically" that I know of. The best way IMO is to hack shell32.dll or whatever icon library you're using. Re-checksum shell32.dll, compress it, and then add it to your unattended CD.

Microangelo or Reshacker are some tools to use for editing libraries.

[Tsunami]

You need to put the icon into the desired folder. And edit the desktop.ini.

This is what the desktop.ini from My Virtual Machines-folder looks like:

[.ShellClassInfo]

IconFile="vm_folder.ico"

IconIndex=0

InfoTip=Contains VMware virtual machine files.

ConfirmFileOp=0

You don't need to put the icon the the same folder, the icon can be anywhere on your drive. Also, if you just want the icon to change, you only need IconFile and IconIndex.

@SiMoNsAyS: I didn't know that the folder had to have the system attribute, but you're right

[SiMoNsAyS]

it is too easy. you need a desktop.ini file with the content @bucketbuster has pointed.

then the folder need to have the system attribute, you can do it by running a cmd "attrib +s C:\yourfolder" and to place the ini files you can make a rar-sfx

edit: @Tsunami i didn't too until i saw a topic a few time ago

Edited December 14, 2004 by SiMoNsAyS

[keytotime]

Thank you so much. I'm putting them on my cd right now.