How To Use An Image As A Folder Background For Pendrive And Local Disk

Adding an image on a folder background is not a complicated work. In this post I will give out the code to do so. First you have to copy this code and paste it on a notepad

[ExtShellFolderViews]

{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}={5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC]

Attributes=1

IconArea_Image=background/1.jpg

IconArea_Text=0xblack

at the ICONAREA_IMAGE

what you have to do is copy your image from your computer local disk and paste it on the particular folder or pendrive. For example in a pendrive, the image is 1.jpg then at the root directory of the pendrive I recommend you to create a folder name as [background] and move your image 1.jpg into it. Then code will be

[ExtShellFolderViews]

{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}={5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

Attributes=1

IconArea_Image = background\1.jpg

IconArea_Text = 0xblack

at the ICONAREA_TEXT
the 0x you cannot change it, the only thing that can be change is black. For example you want the text color to be blue then you may find the code for blue color or just simply change the Iconarea_Image = 0xblue.

The code will be

[ExtShellFolderViews]

{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}={5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

Attributes=1

IconArea_Image = background\1.jpg

IconArea_Text = 0xblue

then save the notepad as desktop.ini and place it on your pendrive root directory.

You have DONE. Please refresh the folder or just close it and reopen it.

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NOTE : ONLY WORKS ON WINDOWS XP !!!