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re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items'
Sunday, November 3, 2002 at 7:00 am
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Posted by mrplow (1 messages posted)

no DONT do that... if you do you will remove the default action for folders (i.e. opening them) and generally cause urself quite a headache.

On Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 5:36 am, Purple Monkey wrote:
>
>Open Explorer, go view->folder Options.. -> file types tab.
>Scroll down to "File Folder", select it and press edit.
>Click Change icon and browse to shell32.dll in the windows directory and the orginal
>icon is in that.
>Click ok 3 times and press F5 at exploer and all the folders should change. If they
>don't then do the same for "Folder".
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (Purple Monkey: Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 5:36 am)

Responses to this message:
re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (madpierrot: Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 6:12 pm)

re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (proceed: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 10:54 pm)

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Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (Kim: Sun, Aug 11, 2002, 3:35 pm)

re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (Janet: Sun, Aug 11, 2002, 6:08 pm)

re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (Kim: Tue, Aug 13, 2002, 6:45 pm)

re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (Purple Monkey: Sat, Sep 21, 2002, 5:36 am)

re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (mrplow: Sun, Nov 3, 2002, 7:00 am)

re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (madpierrot: Thu, Feb 6, 2003, 6:12 pm)

re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (proceed: Wed, Apr 30, 2003, 10:54 pm)

re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (Brandon Shipley: Sat, Jul 30, 2005, 5:52 pm)

re: Question about 'Change the Icons of Desktop Items' (dj3hampton: Tue, Jan 17, 2006, 11:13 pm)

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