Friday, February 28, 2014

How to change folder background in Windows XP?




Lots of free tools available in online for amazing windows tweaks :)

But as a computer experts, these tools are waste pieces for us.We just want everything would be just control by us. Not the coding by other companies or etc.


Here a simple steps for change folder's default white background with our desire picture.

This works in Windows XP. I am not sure about after versions.

Ok. Here the steps!

Choose the folder as our target. Here ex: D:\Travel

Step1:
Open "cmd prompt", type the code attrib +s D:\Travel
(This is just to change system attribute value)

Step2:
Open a notepad and add the below code.This is the key part! save this inside our target folder as "Desktop.ini"
[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC} = {BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=path_of_the_wallpaper
IconArea_Text=0x00000000
* path_of_the_wallpaper contain the image path. Here D:\Image\new.jpg
So the code will be,
[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC} = {BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=D:\Image\new.jpg
IconArea_Text=0x00000000
Step 3:
That's it. Close the folder and re-open it. 
 Now it should show the wallpaper as background.

Happy Weekend!! :) Meet you again soon!!!

- Rajkumar PP