Lovely Folders is a powerful utility to customize your Windows folders. Using this handy program you can replace the standard folder icon for individual folders with any eye-catching icon you wish, chosen from hundreds of built-in colorful icons or
generated automatically by internal IconConverter depending on the content of a folder
(music, video, images, etc.). Moreover, Lovely Folders can change folder background!
Your individual folders now may have a background image - just like your desktop.
Lovely Folders allows you to:* Apply different icons to individual folders in a few mouse clicks
* [NEW!] Put any picture as a wallpaper to a folder
* Set an info tip for a folder
* [NEW!] Replace the system-defined standard folder icon, which is used by Windows
to display each folder on your computer
* Extract icons from icon files (ICO), icon libraries (ICL) and icon resources
(EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, OCX etc.)
* Search for icons on your computer
* Copy icon to the current folder to make your folder icons independent from icon
source files (that allows you to move or copy your customized folders anywhere even
to another computer! Your folders will be the look exactly as you specified)
* Rebuild the system icon cache to repair incorrect icon images
* Add your favorite icons to the user icon list to access them faster
* Create a template to make doing multiple identical changes of folder's appearance
easier
* Extract all icons from the application associated with the specified type of files
Powerful features:*
Lovely Folders automatically determines the content of a folder and recommends the most
suitable icons for this folder
* LovelyConverter
-- built-in icon converter -- simple and fast way to generate
folder-look icons
* Supports ALL sizes (up to 128x128) and ALL color depths (mono, 16 colors, 256 colors,
True-color and Windows XP 32-bit with alpha channel) of the icons
* Supports the following icon resources formats: Icon files (ICO), Icon Libraries (ICL),
Icon Resources (EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, OCX etc.)
* Supports JPEG, GIF images and bitmaps (BMP) as folder background
* [NEW!]Lovely Folders includes 3 icon packs with the highest quality icons (including
Windows
Vista
color folder icons)
* All icons are sorted by categories, and when you select a category, Lovely Folders
automatically displays specified icons. Moreover, Lovely Folders can scan your system
and add ALL icons associated with the selected category to the list of icons
* Full integration with Windows Explorer (you can launch Lovely Folders using right-click
popup menu)
* Supports drag-and-drop (you can drag any file or a folder into the "Change icon"
window)
* Multilingual interface (20 languages included. The list of languages follows below)
* Easy to use
* Vista-like convenient and friendly interface
The following PC operating systems are supported by Lovely Folders:* Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 2003 / 2000 / ME / 9x / NT
Note: best results you'll get when running on Windows XP.