I want to change the icons for other folders that I have in my Documents folder for portable apps. How can I change it so that no matter what computer i plug my drive into it will be the same icon that I set?
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well you have to enable hidden files and folders. then go insiide of the folder and open tthe file "Desktop.ini" and redirect the file to your icon.
another way you can do this is to simply replace the curret icons with your icons. you will have to rename the new icons to match the onld ones thogh.
Zoop
What I mean is portable apps has their own icons for documents and pictures, video and audio how do I do this for other folders in the Documents folder on my portable drive. In the portable apps menu they have all of th icons saved how can I change teh icons for other folders that I have.
EDIT:editing the desktop.ini doesn´t work on every OS
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That's actually what all those folder programs do... they just edit the desktop.ini within the folders and set the appropriate flag on the folder itself.
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using a modded menu has nothing at all to do with setting a desktop.ini file for a folder
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I was talking about adding folders into Documents, not about the desktop.ini
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You can add folders under documents with Windows explorer. I don't think the user is asking for folders to all appear in the menu, just to be able to change all of the icons for his folders so that they match the PortableApps icon theme
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i use folder tweaker to change icons of the folders
check this out
http://img247.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picsth1.jpg
use folder tweaker to change the icons then edit that folders desktop.ini and make all the absolute paths to relative ones
example
for a folder Abakt in X:\PortableApps
destop.ini is something like this
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=X:\PortableApps\PortableAppsMenu\Icons\backup.ico
IconIndex=0
change it to
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=..\PortableAppsMenu\Icons\backup.ico
IconIndex=0
that is what i was trying to get across, and you can edit desktop.ini with notepad as well.
Zoop