Changing the "Thumbnail-Folder" and Folder Backgrounds??

Hello, I'm really desperate, I've searched everywhere for a solution to
these seemingly "minor" problems, but they impact my ability to enjoy
vista incredibly.


Thumbnail-Folder:
I changed the standard yellow folder icon to a green one, however
Folders that preview pictures (which is practically EVERY folder and its
grandma) are STILL ugly and yellow, opened with some papers or pics in
it.
I do *NOT* want to turn off thumbnails as a whole, and I quite like the
folder-thumbnail-function aswell as the file-thumbnail-function. But I
NEED a way to change the thumbnail-folder icon! :shock:

Does the .ico file I use for the standard folder icon have to have a
special structure? Does vista take the thumbnailed-folder icon from some
special .dll?? I am really confused how I can resolve this!


2nd problem: Folder backgrounds!
In XP, I used a modified desktop.ini and attrib+s<folder name>


Code:
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[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=.\Folder Settings\Background.bmp

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to give my most important folders like D:\Music a background (repeated
image of notes, which looked beautiful).
However in Vista it does not work. "Customize folder..." doesn't work
either, so how does this work in Vista?


Thanks a lot if you can help me with these problems!!


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forumghost;1091307 Wrote:
> Hello, I'm really desperate, I've searched everywhere for a solution to
> these seemingly "minor" problems, but they impact my ability to enjoy
> vista incredibly.
>
>
> Thumbnail-Folder:
> I changed the standard yellow folder icon to a green one, however
> Folders that preview pictures (which is practically EVERY folder and its
> grandma) are STILL ugly and yellow, opened with some papers or pics in
> it.
> I do *NOT* want to turn off thumbnails as a whole, and I quite like the
> folder-thumbnail-function aswell as the file-thumbnail-function. But I
> NEED a way to change the thumbnail-folder icon! :shock:
>
> Does the .ico file I use for the standard folder icon have to have a
> special structure? Does vista take the thumbnailed-folder icon from some
> special .dll?? I am really confused how I can resolve this!
>
>
> 2nd problem: Folder backgrounds!
> EDIT: I stand corrected, Aveapps background suddently works!
> But the first problem persists.

Does no one have a solution to the thumbnail problem?
The icons used are @%systemroot%\system32\imageres.dll,-4 and
@%systemroot%\system32\imageres.dll,-5

However, the registry doesn't make any references to them it seems.
And the imageres.dll can't be edited, because it denies access to the
256x256 icons!

:(


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