A fancy and not at all cumbersome thing to customize a piece of graphics on your Windows desktop can be to change the background of an open folder with an image . By background of the folder is meant the white space that appears when you open My Computer or the document folder, where you scroll through the list of icons and files that are inside.
This background of every single folder can be changed with several small tools but, recently, it has been released on the DeviantArt graphics site, a very small program that applies a change to the folder options tab.
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Without leaving any software in the background, without unnecessary memory consumption and above all, without absolutely compromising the stability of the system, you can download Folder Bakground Changer which adds the option to change the background, directly in the folder properties .
The integration in the Windows shell (in its interface) makes this operation much more convenient, faster and without installing any more programs.
This Background Changer is in fact a software that allows you to easily change the background of a chosen folder by putting your own image or photo.
Alternatively there is also AveFolder for Windows 7 which can be downloaded on the Deviantart website.
This Avefolder in fact is not a software to be installed but a package of files that includes a dll and two modified registry keys.
To bring up the folder background modification option, you must then download AveFolderBG, unzip it and install it by launching the install.bat file as administrator.
After giving the ok to copy the file and modify the registry, you must log out the Windows user or restart the computer to apply the changes.
Now you can open the explorer, open a folder for which you want to see another background, for example the one with the music, right click on the empty white space, press " Properties " and find out that, among the tabs, there is a new one called " Folder Background ".
From this configuration tab you can upload your own image to be used as background for that folder, you can change the color of the text under the icons even with a shadow effect and you can apply these graphic changes to all the subfolders of that.
The chosen image, if small, will be seen side by side while if it is large, it will be seen central, at original size.
Avefolder wallpaper change only supports photos and images from Jpg or Jpeg format.
If you just want to change color, you need to upload an image even very small made from a uniform color.
You can put a different background for each folder on your computer if you wanted.
To remove the Folder Background tab from the folder properties and return to the previous situation, simply run the Uninstall.bat file and all these options disappear.
AveFolder can be downloaded for Windows 7 on the Deviantart website.
