

Once done you’ll see that nothing happens as already explained above. You can just copy it from Folder1 and paste it in Folder2. Let’s change the icon for Folder2, using the same desktop.ini file.IconResource=C:\WINDOWS\System32\SHEL元2.dll,316 Under \Folder1, there’ll be a desktop.ini file as well.This is how Folder1 and Folder2 will look like now.

We change the icon for Folder1 manually.Say we have Folder1 and Folder2 in our local environment. Let’s work with an example and go through it. The reason is because the folder attributes must be changed as well in order for Windows to read the Desktop.ini file.

When you copy that file to another folder though, nothing happens. If you change the icon of a local folder, you’ll notice that a Desktop.ini hidden file is created. Totally ugly and useless if you have a large folder or multiple folders to customize. Let’s have a look at the difference between a local folder’s properties and a shared network folder’s properties.Ī trick to allow us to change icon on a shared network folder, would be to move it on the desktop, change the icon and move it back. The script is very simple, but first I want to go through it with an example, you can scroll down to the end of this article to checkout the script. Each of these has its own visualization system that the program will use to suggest autocomplete options or allow you to compress lines of code between brackets.In this post we’ll see how to change a folder icon with Powershell, this method will work on shared folders too, as long as the filesystem of the shared network folder allows it. The supported languages include C, Java, XML, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, RC resource files, makefile, ASCII art files, doxygen, ini files, ASP, VB/VBS files, SQL, Objective-C, CSS, Pascal, Perl and Python. It also allows you to search for words or phrases using regular expressions. The changes that you make in one visualization of the document will also appear in the others.

You can visualize and work with a number of documents at the same time using different tabs and even modify different views of the same file at the same time. In addition, you can personalize the style for each supported language, selecting the color, typeface, font size and style for the key words. Its features include syntax for different programming languages, which you can completely personalize. In addition to working with plain text, it can be used as a source code editor by programmers, and it's compatible with more than 50 languages. Notepad++ is an excellent plain text editor with all of the features you miss from your traditional Notepad.
