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Well, as the title suggests, how do i change the colour of the text in a folder's name created in windows xp pro?

Many thanks, Phil.

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You can't

Reply to hubbardt

I've seen it done though in work.

Reply to NHS

You can't in XP alone. After a google search I found this, it's the utility from 98 that let you customize folders such as text color.

Clicky!

Hope that helps ya

Reply to CHEEZball

Was the text colour blue ?
XP has an inbuilt folder compression option (right click folder, properties, advanced, compress contents to save disk space).

You can then set your folder view to display compressed folders in blue (Tools, Folder Option, View, Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in colour)

Regards,

Reply to hubbardt

Ahhhh, is that what it is? Just tried it and it works just like i wanted. Although, if i compress the folders to display the text as blue, could this damage the file contents, such as music files?

Thanks

Reply to NHS

It will only slow things down a little as the operating system has to decompress the data when accessing it. Never seen it corrupt data.

MP3s, Movies (DivX or Xvid) and JPEGs are all very compressed already so you won't gain much space. Compression works best on office docs (word, excel ...), text files and some databases.

After compressing a folder you can afterwards right click and get properties to see how much space has been saved.

Regards,

Reply to hubbardt

Impossible

Reply to djsoftware

you can get green if you encrypt the file/folder

Reply to fattony

Hi there

There is a way to change the Folder and File Fonts...

Create a hidden file with the name desktop.ini in the folder with this content:

[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=C:\WINNT\OFFICE.GIF
IconArea_Text=0x00FFFFFF
[.ShellClassInfo]
ConfirmFileOp=0
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=3

I'm not shure what all lines are for but I found out why the writing was in white...

Cheers

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