iColorFolder: Color-code your Windows folders

Filed under: Windows, Productivity, Open Source

iColorFolder: Color-code your Windows folders

by Jordan Running Jul 18th 2006

Awhile back I blogged about changing Windows folder icons to make navigation faster. It's a great productivity booster and I've been doing it ever since, but I'm going to have to give iColorFolder a try. Like the folder icons, iColorFolder makes folder navigation in Windows easier, in this case by letting you assign colors to your folder icons, which is done from the right-click context menu. It also lets you assign custom icons and comes with three different icon skins, but it also works fine if you're already using some icon customization/skin tool. Even better, iColorFolder is open source software and takes up little memory.

[Via Lifehacker]

Tags: color, colorcode, colorize, customize, folder, free, icolorfolder, icon, icons, opensource, productivity

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Night Elve said 7:02PM on 7-18-2006

Cool¡ I just installed it and is pretty neat¡

Jim said 7:05PM on 7-18-2006

This looks like an attempt at a Windows port of the decade-old Macintosh "label" feature.

numike said 8:31PM on 7-18-2006

I use a really neat program rainbow folders
http://www.rainbowfolders.k7.pl/
the neat feature of this program is that you can shade each folder to your individual taste!

mang said 4:19AM on 7-19-2006

This damn thing didn't bother to post a disclaimer that it would completely remove any folder organization that you have... so if your desktop is arranged... gone.

mother-f annoying.

where's the uninstall button.

Steve Algieri said 6:50AM on 7-19-2006

Yep, also trashed all my icons (they all vanished). Managed to restore them by editing the flippin' register (email if you need help).

Be gone acursed rubbish....

Steve Algieri said 6:56AM on 7-19-2006

Doesn't put darn emails address on comments ;)

Follow these instructions if your icons have vanished.

http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/263/

Gyurma said 2:00AM on 9-05-2006

great thing but!!!!!
well as usual it doesn't work with network drives!!!! I'd be really interested (and pay if needed) for an app wich does that!!!

Thanks

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