iColor Folder allows you to easily color code folders in your computer. Once installed you can right-click on any folder and assign a color to it. I have been using the software for some time now and find it very useful. I color the folders I use most often red so that they automatically grab my attention when browsing that directory, this really helps when you’ve got 60 folders in My Documents directory like I do. If you’d like to use the software you can download and try it for yourself. Comments/suggestions welcome.
"Organise your files more easily
With iColorFolder, give some color to WindowsXP folders.
With just a right-click, colorize your folders, and discover
a new intuitive way to classify your files. A quick view is
now enough to identify the folder you are looking for !Classify your folders by Family
You can now classify your folders by Family. Red is an Important
folder, Orange is Urgent, Green is Familial… Choose the attributions
that you like, so you’ll never delete an important folder by error.A fast and light tool
iColorFolder is a very light soft, that doesn’t stay in memory. It uses a native
functionnality of WindowsXP to be more efficient. Discover it’s simplicity : with a
single right-click on a folder you colorize it ; the necessary and only the necessary.
iColorFolder is proudly an Open-Source program.Fully skinnable
iColorFolder is bundled with three apparences : the default apparence of WindowsXP
folders, a Mac OS X skin and a Snow.E2 skin. If your system is already
customized with shellpacks like WinOSX,
you’ll keep the same folder apparence. You can find other skins on the Web or even
easily create one yourself.Some images tells more than a thousand word
You’ll find in the Screenshots Section some
images describing iColorFolder and presenting it’s functionalities. Try it ! If you
didn’t like it, you can uninstall it fully and quickly." Via Publisher Website
1. Download and install iColor Folder
2. Once installed you can right-click on any folder and you will see a new menu item – Color Label > ‘Color’
3. Select the color you wish to use for your folder, and voila! Your folders color has changed.
Article posted on 08 21st, 2006
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Does anyone know of a way to get iColorFolder to work on Windows 7? I really like this program but after upgrading to Win7 I can’t use it. It will install but iColorFolder is not in the right-click context menu like it should be.
I’d really appreciate it if someone had any ideas.
Thanks,
R.
@Frustrated: I’ve look around and can’t seem to find something other than changing the icon itself. I’ll keep you posted if anything comes up. If anyone else knows how, please let us know.
Thanks for the reply, Gil. I’ve scoured the web for a solution but haven’t found one. Too bad.
The closest thing I’ve found is Rainbow Folders, http://www.rainbowfolders.aionel.net. It’s not bad but takes a few more steps.
Thanks again. I hope someone can make this work sometime.
@Frustrated: Did it work for Windows 7? If it did let me know so that I can post it as an additional resource on this page. Thanks for getting back to me with your possible solution.
Yes, Rainbow Folders works with Windows 7. Right-Click on a folder, choose ‘Rainbow Folders’ and customize your hue and saturation with the color slider. You can save your “Favorite” folder colors (with your chosen transparency if you adjust that also) and use the same configuration another time.
If you want to color multiple folders in the same directory tick the “Multiple Select” box above the folder tree and they folders scoot to the right to reveal tick boxes for multiple choice.
You can also create a custom tooltip if you like.
If the folder colors don’t ‘take’ hit options and then “Rebuild”, that might work. Sometimes if you just go ahead and close the window then the color appears.
There’s no “apply” or “ok” button, you just close the window when you’re done.
This is a decent work around, but I still prefer iColor just because it was less clicks in total.
Thanks for your replies. Hope this helps someone.
Frustrated, but not defeated. : )
@Frustrated: Thank you so much for the feedback, I will update this article to reflect your input.
I would really love to see more readers like you willing to provide helpful input to help others.
Hope to see you back here in the future.
i used icolor for winxp and all my icons just dissapeared:| i mean it… tried reinstalling icolor but to no succes… the only solution i see is reinstalling windows… a solution which i do not fancy though… could u help me please? oh and btw… my start menu is all black!:| the only thing i can see and use are the log off and shut down buttons. i would very thankful if u could help me
@Vishu – I don’t think you need to re-install windows. Have you attempted to uninstall the i-color application? I’d try that before proceeding with a clean install. Also, did you create a restore point. You might be able to restore Windows to a previous state. Let me know. Thank you.
Ok I haven't had the same problem as you. I had installed Icolor to many different xp versions and I didn't have a problem. But when I tried to install it to my cousins computer which was running windows vista the icons were disappeared too
Does anybody know of any software that changes the color of folders and yet does not finish the interactive preview of the contents of the folder in windows 7
Changing colors only is boring. i want to match the color of the folder to the theme and still be using large icon with preiveiws
What I 've just found is this: I had win XP coloured folders using Icolor 1.42 When I installed it on Win7 it didn't work. After that I installed Rainbow Folders and the colours that I had coloured on WinXP have already been coloured on Win7. I don't know though if you have to install icolor first on win7 and then rainbow folders or use rainbow immediately.