Can't change icon for "WINDOWS" folder with Icon Packager.

Published on June 5, 2003 By hashonboat In WinCustomize Talk

After having Object Desktop for 10 months I just realized I couldn't change the icon for the "WINDOWS" folder. I found a nice icon I thought I would use for it but the customize tab is not there in properties. ( windows xp professional). I checked around & noticed it's not axailable for "Program Files" or "system32" foldeers either. I could not find anything in Icon Packager to do it but I could change it with "Magic Tweak". Maybe that could be something for the next release of Icon Packager?

Comments

DarkMist

on Jun 05, 2003

Not sure but i remember seeing something about some folders not being allowed to be changed...could be wrong though

c242

on Jun 05, 2003

Some say it is not very clever to change the icon of the windows folder. There are still some programs out there, that can't 'see' contents of customized folders and therefore fail. I personally noticed this with some freeware file-managers several times and my purchased cd-manager...

werewolf

on Jun 05, 2003

Hmmm, that is odd, because I'm using the pixOS icon pack and all my 'special' folders are using the pixOS version. WinXP Pro SP1 and the latest Icon Packager.

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