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stoney

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Oct 15, 2002, 7:31:46 AM10/15/02
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Rainbow Folders (RF) is an easy to use program, which allows you to change
color of the icon representing chosen folder to any color you like. 328kb
download...available here

http://www.rainbowfolders.k7.pl/

Stoney


Andreas Kaestner

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Oct 15, 2002, 10:47:14 AM10/15/02
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stoney (habs...@sympatico.ca) schrieb/wrote:

Nice find - thank you. A word of caution regarding this one:

The "System" attribute of a folder will be *reset* after de-colorizing
- RF does not remember the initial state of that attribute.

The problem could easily circumvented by adding something like
"InitialSysAtt=x" to the (hidden) desktop.ini file, which will
be added to each folder processed by RF.

If that seems to be inappropriate, the icon itself could carry
the information about the previous state of the folder's sys-att,
IOW, when de-colorizing, the folder's sys-att will be set according
to the .ico file sys-att.

But maybe I should contact the program's author ... :-)

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Simone Murdock

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Oct 15, 2002, 11:00:19 AM10/15/02
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:47:14 +0200, "Andreas Kaestner"
<andreas...@web.de> wrote:

>
>> Rainbow Folders (RF) is an easy to use program, which allows you to
>> change color of the icon representing chosen folder to any color you
>> like. 328kb download...available here
>>
>> http://www.rainbowfolders.k7.pl/

Is there a program to change the icon (not only the color) of a folder
(W2000) ?
I've tried IcoFolder but it makes a wrong assignment (.ico file not
found)

Simone
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Danin

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Oct 15, 2002, 12:37:17 PM10/15/02
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:00:19 GMT, Simone Murdock
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| Is there a program to change the icon (not only the color) of a folder
| (W2000) ?

Iconforge 4.92 was mentioned here a couple of weeks ago:

PCPlus Download
ftp://ftp.futurenet.co.uk/pub/pcplus/iconforge/iconforge.zip
HomePage
http://www.cursorarts.com/

Included both the icon maker, and a utility to change the folder
icons.

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Andreas Kaestner

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Oct 15, 2002, 5:39:39 PM10/15/02
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bob (b...@nospam.com) schrieb/wrote:
> "Andreas Kaestner" <andreas...@web.de> wrote:

>>> http://www.rainbowfolders.k7.pl/
>>
>> Nice find - thank you. A word of caution regarding this one:
>>
>> The "System" attribute of a folder will be *reset* after
>> de-colorizing
>> - RF does not remember the initial state of that attribute.
>>

> What does this mean exactly?

That means that one should *not* apply RF's de-colorize function
to folders which *require* to have the system attribute set (or
remember to set the attribute again manually, e.g. using DOS's
attrib command: C:>attrib +s sysfolder).

The %windir%\Fonts folder is such a folder - if the system
attribute is not set, the folder loses some of its functionality:

Missing Menu Commands in the Fonts Folder (Q133725):
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;q133725

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