The default folder icons in Windows are so dreadfully boring, what with their bland manilla coloring and horizontal orientation. What we want is brightly colored folders that we can choose to stand on their side (like Vista). In the real world, not such a great idea - your paperwork would just slide out constantly and you end up with a bigger mess than before you crammed it into a folder.In Windows, it's another story. Using Rainbow Folders to change the default icons gives you a quick way to visually distinguish your folders. Color all your image folders orange, documents green, or memos from your boss brown. It's a very simple way to add a bit of sanity to any directory that is overrun with subfolders. You can even add tooltip text to your folder, which displays in Explorer's status bar when you single click it.
As an added bonus you can also switch between old school (Windows 9x), XP, and Vista style icons. Sweet.
(note: publisher's site is not linked as it timed out repeatedly)
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7-07-2008 @ 12:30PM
Mark Kemp said...
If it could change the color of the *current open folder* icon so it's easy to see, it would be useful.
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7-07-2008 @ 1:35PM
Eli Gundry said...
I love how we can see your pirated version of Toy Story lol
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7-07-2008 @ 1:59PM
Lee Mathews said...
Er, that's a totally legit rip of my own disk...Three year old, DVDs scratched constantly, etc. :-)
7-08-2008 @ 12:26PM
Eli Gundry said...
Lee, is it so legit that you had to edit it? It's okay though, Everyone pirates, and that rip of Toy Story is quite good.
7-31-2008 @ 11:21AM
Shilun said...
If you have Copernic Desktop Search installed, using Rainbow Folders will prevent those folders from being indexed, at least on my Vista system.
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