I was google-ing for the past day or so, and could not find an easier way of changing the icons for a folder in Windows 7 than the following... The thing is, I have a movie x264 collection, and each movie is stored in its own folder. I would like to change the folder icon for the specific movie with the use of an .ico file.
I'm totally able to do so. I use Axialis IconWorkshop to convert my Movie Posters from JPG to ICO, 256x256. Then I go manually in Windows, right-click on the folder, Properties. Click on Customize, Change Icon, browse, select the newly created icon, Apply, OK, and voila, Bob's your Uncle.
The problem I have is, Windows creates a hidden desktop.ini file inside the folder, which describes location of the ico file. This path is 'hardcoded' if I can call it that. So, whenever I copy/rename this folder to another location, the icon dissapears, and one has to Customize, Browse, Select, and Apply again.
desktop.ini
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconResource=H:\Riaan\HD Movies\The Bourne Ultimatum - 1080p\bourne_ultimatum.ico,0
Is there no other way of doing this?
- I'm using Media Player Classic with GPU support to playback my 1080p/720p movies, as Windows Media Player and VLC cannot do this...
See this screenshot:
