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How to change folder background in windows vista

Posted by abdul vahid lakkalabdul vahid lakkal on Wednesday, March 03, 2010

In windows vista, You can change the folder background in different ways and you can keep your favorite wallpapers and pics as your folder background

1. Using Andreas UtilityIt is the simplest way to change the folder background in windows vista. Its just simple and do the work for you amazingly.Here is the steps to change the folder background using Andreas utility.
Download Andreas utility from here , extract to the desktop and open the respective folders ( if your OS is 32 bit open 32bits or if your OS is 64 bit open 64bits) and double click on install.bat (you will see only one install file, so click on that.Some times you might not see the .bat extension) file.Once you double click on install.bat file you will get message like below



Click on OK and you will get one more warning like below



Click on Yes and you will one more warning like below



Click on OK and select the folder for which you want to change the background.Right click on the folder and go to properties. For example
we created folder soluzia on deskop



There you can see a Folder Background TAB (1). Select that and click on Set Image button (2) and browse for your favorite picture in computer and Click On Apply and OK. If you want to apply the same picture to the subfolders, just Select the option Apply to subfolders also. See the pic below



Done!! Enjoy Vista!!

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