Creating personalized Windows 7 system win7 personalized icons

Microsoft Windows 7 operating system not only on the desktop background and themes have their own personalized settings, the appearance of the folder has also been a great degree of improvement, so that we can drastically modify the folder, so that the folder also shows your personality flavor. Do not know how to operate? It's OK, follow us here to easily build your personalized Windows 7 system.

1. Change the beautiful personality icon to the folder in the Windows7 system

First make their own icons, some of the icons are Win7 system, here to teach you to use a small tool to make their own favorite icon, "Iconxp" This is a can make icons of small software. Let's get a picture of the BMP format for 48x48 resolution. Download Install "ICONXP" Run startup, in the Pop-up New Icon dialog box, in the "Size" item select 48x48, "Color" select "True Color", then click OK, enter the program main interface, the interface to select "File" After the "Import image", load to convert to the Win7 folder icon of the small picture, in this interface can be image effects and color, such as a series of adjustments, adjusted to save it as an ICO format to complete the production of Windows 7 icon files.

The next step is to replace the Windows 7 default icon and make your own personality icon so we can use it. When you change, right-click the folder in the Windows 7 system where you want to change the icon, select Properties, open the Properties dialog box, and then switch to the custom item, and click the Change Icon button in the interface.

This time the program defaults to open the%systemroot%system32shell32.dll file, and display the file in the system from the icon, when we click the "Browse" button, select their own produced ico icon file, you can import the icon into the Change window, Click OK to complete the changes to the Windows 7 folder icon.

Now take a look at this folder in the Windows 7 system does the icon turn into a personalized picture we made ourselves? Even if someone else is using the Windows7 flagship, it's not going to be more personal than your system. ^-^

2. Specify the Windows 7 folder preview map

I think a lot of friends who use Windows 7 computers have noticed another difference in Win7, that is, when a large icon displays files in the folder, the system will directly preview the picture inside, in fact, using the characteristics of Windows7, we can put good pictures into the folder, Let each folder show us the designated picture, so that is beautiful and can prevent people to see the picture exposed outside, is to kill both birds!

How do I do that? First we have a picture of the folder to display, and the resolution of the picture to ask 256x256. Then select the folder where you want to display the picture, right-click on the Windows7 folder, select Properties from the pop-up right-click menu, and open the folder Properties window. Switch to the Customize interface, click the Select File button in the folder picture item, select the picture you have prepared, and then click OK Add.

At this time, press the F5 key on your computer to perform a refresh, to see if the picture you just added is already displayed in the folder, and only a picture of your own, even if the folder contains other pictures or photos will not be displayed.