Changing Folder Icons

I copied some folders from my old Windows XP Professional on to Vista
Enterprise. Although the "Documents" folder has Vista-like icon, all the
subfolders have traditional yellow icons. Is there a way to change them to
Vista icons?

Thanks,
Esc

Escribirs hello--

I don't understand which particular "Vista icons" you want them to be. What
icons for example are they now? Don't they retain the look when you move
them UNTIL you elect to change them?

I have one machine that's a dual boot. I move folders back and forth or
copy them all the time. Whatever icon I want them to have, I either draw
from a favicons folder I made collecting over 1000 icons, or I can exchange
them with icons from a variety of vista files and .dlls, a variety of XP
files and .dlls, program files, zip folders, etc.

How did you copy them? Dual boot? Transfered with Windows Easy Tranfer?
Part of your network as a networked box?

CH


"Escribirs" <escribirs@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I copied some folders from my old Windows XP Professional on to Vista
>Enterprise. Although the "Documents" folder has Vista-like icon, all the
>subfolders have traditional yellow icons. Is there a way to change them to
>Vista icons?
>
> Thanks,
> Esc

I copied them using WinSCP from a computer on my network. I was wondering if
all the "Documents" subfolders should have blue-green icons (the icon you
specifically see for "Documents" folder) than the kind of icons (original)
you see in Windows XP. I tried to manually customize the folder icons, but
the blue-green icon is not available in the list of icons.

Thank you,
Esc
"Chad Harris" <fixvista-itneedsit.net> wrote in message
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> Escribirs hello--
>
> I don't understand which particular "Vista icons" you want them to be.
> What icons for example are they now? Don't they retain the look when you
> move them UNTIL you elect to change them?
>
> I have one machine that's a dual boot. I move folders back and forth or
> copy them all the time. Whatever icon I want them to have, I either draw
> from a favicons folder I made collecting over 1000 icons, or I can
> exchange them with icons from a variety of vista files and .dlls, a
> variety of XP files and .dlls, program files, zip folders, etc.
>
> How did you copy them? Dual boot? Transfered with Windows Easy Tranfer?
> Part of your network as a networked box?
>
> CH
>
>
> "Escribirs" <escribirs@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23C3I$NiRHHA.388@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>I copied some folders from my old Windows XP Professional on to Vista
>>Enterprise. Although the "Documents" folder has Vista-like icon, all the
>>subfolders have traditional yellow icons. Is there a way to change them to
>>Vista icons?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Esc
>

"Escribirs" <escribirs@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I copied them using WinSCP from a computer on my network. I was wondering
>if
> all the "Documents" subfolders should have blue-green icons (the icon you
> specifically see for "Documents" folder) than the kind of icons (original)
> you see in Windows XP. I tried to manually customize the folder icons, but
> the blue-green icon is not available in the list of icons.


It's supposed to be like that. Standard folder icons are yellow, but they
aren't like XP folder icons as they are standing in their ends, looking like
an open book. Also, they are 'live' as they show thumbnails of the files
within them inside the 'folder'.

ss.

Thank you.

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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> "Escribirs" <escribirs@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uBhd3qiRHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>I copied them using WinSCP from a computer on my network. I was wondering
>>if
>> all the "Documents" subfolders should have blue-green icons (the icon you
>> specifically see for "Documents" folder) than the kind of icons
>> (original)
>> you see in Windows XP. I tried to manually customize the folder icons,
>> but
>> the blue-green icon is not available in the list of icons.
>
>
> It's supposed to be like that. Standard folder icons are yellow, but they
> aren't like XP folder icons as they are standing in their ends, looking
> like an open book. Also, they are 'live' as they show thumbnails of the
> files within them inside the 'folder'.
>
> ss.

I beleive that the information you were given is wrong. I had the same issue
as you on a desktop on which I used filre transfer software (i.e., XP icons);
however, on a desktop on which I did a file transfer (no settings) using
flash drives (I do not like the settings coming over from XP any longer) I
had Vista icons. Two different ways to set-up two different desktops resulted
in two different icons used for documents and picture folders. I bugged me as
well.

"Escribirs" wrote:

> Thank you.
>
> "Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
> news:%23gsMytiRHHA.996@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > "Escribirs" <escribirs@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:uBhd3qiRHHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> >>I copied them using WinSCP from a computer on my network. I was wondering
> >>if
> >> all the "Documents" subfolders should have blue-green icons (the icon you
> >> specifically see for "Documents" folder) than the kind of icons
> >> (original)
> >> you see in Windows XP. I tried to manually customize the folder icons,
> >> but
> >> the blue-green icon is not available in the list of icons.
> >
> >
> > It's supposed to be like that. Standard folder icons are yellow, but they
> > aren't like XP folder icons as they are standing in their ends, looking
> > like an open book. Also, they are 'live' as they show thumbnails of the
> > files within them inside the 'folder'.
> >
> > ss.
>
>