Hello everyone. This is Halla from Information Leak. I am redoing a tutorial I done a while ago. This is how to put a custom image in the background of a folder. It is pretty neat, little tutorial. I hope you enjoy it in any case.
First of all, you—let’s be going. Let’s pick a folder, this one is called folder. As you will notice, there is nothing in it; it is just an empty folder, okay. Once w e are in the folder, you can go to Tools, Folder Options and go the View Tab, once you are on the View Tab, on the bottom there is Advanced Settings. You will check to Show hidden files and folder. As well as to uncheck Hide protected operating system files. Something pops up warning you this may not be a wise idea. Be very brave and click Yes, once you are done, click OK and sometimes, you will have a desktop.ini folder go up, which in this case is not the case. In which case, you will have to create one. It is very simple to create one, you can just create, you can just open up Notepad and once Notepad opens up, you can type the following, and there you have it. I will give you a little while to write that down or type it in if you are following along.
So you have got your [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC. Back to your little curly brace and your bracket again, now under that, we are going to put an icon area image= and then the location of the picture that we’d like to place within the folder. I believe I have given you enough time to take a good look at that. Let us move on to the second line of it.
So you are going to put ‘IconArea_Image=C:’ and then the location f the picture. So this is actually a little bit confusing because I have it on my desktop, so what I will do is, I will just put it directly in and you know what? This is really quite a name too. So I will just name it i2.jpg. You should be able to see it better that way. So let us do that and put it in that particular location.
I2 and we’ll put in the C, just drop it in there somewhere, looks good to me, right in there. Now we’re ready to go over there buddy, there you are. So that is where it is right now, great. And so there you are, hope you can read this. I will enlarge it and I am going to make the font larger, how is that sounds? All right, there we go, okay.
Now at this point, you are going to want to save it as desktop.ini within the new folder. So here is the folder. We’re going to name it desktop—desktop.ini we’re going to save it in there. There you have it. So within this folder, you now have desktop.ini, okay.
Now at this point, we are going to go a direct three up because I am very lazy. Actually yes, we are going to all the way up, we are going to go to Start and Run, we’re going to type in attrib, a, t, t, r, i, b. Going to skip the space, +s, skip the space again. Find the folder you are taking and drag it in or you can type the location in but I am very lazy and I just prefer to drag it into that little Window just like I did, we’ve put to the location of that folder that we’re putting in to Custom background into and click OK. A little command, prompt type thing will open up and shut quickly and that should do it.
So now at this point, we can shot this here and if we open up this folder, that picture should be in the background and it is. That is the picture I chose. So this is actually in the background of the folder but you notice the desktop, that INI file is still here, let us hide that. So we right click on it and go to Properties. Once we are at Properties, we are going to check off Attributes hidden, click Apply and OK. Now it is hidden. So we go to Tools again, Folder Options, View, in the advanced settings. We do not show the hidden files and folders and again, we hide the protected operating system files, Apply and OK. And the next time we open this folder, that desktop, that INI should be gone, it it’s not gone already. And there you have it.
So now you can move anything you would like into your neat oh, new, little custom folder and everything is much loved. People will be wondering what your DL is. You are now officially awesome. One of the reasons for doing this that I personally it for, is to take album art and put that the cover of my album into the folders where my music is. So I—I do no know, stuff like that, it is very neat. It keeps everything cool and a lot of people have been asking me how to do it. It is very popular. A video—figured I’d redo it.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed, this is Halla from Information Leak, until next time, our base system.
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