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After updating to windows 11, the option to customize "Choose a file to show on this folder icon" does not change the folder's display image even after applying, I have tried the solutions displayed here " https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/folder-icon-thumbnails-broken-windows-11-pro/0e60c9ee-e5f0-4e6d-80c9-42cf2f89752e " but it did not solve the issue, I also do not have the option to revert to windows 10 where this problem never occurred
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Hello Ramesh. Why customize your folders with only half icon? I used folder.jpg to illustrate all my folders and it worked great until Win10 ( to which I reverted back, and have been waiting for 2 years now to upgrade again to Win11). So when the full photo will be back? Do we have to wait until Win12?
@okaye
This Windows 11 issue has NOTHING to due with emoji's or changing icons.
It is SIMPLY putting a file (such a picture file,) ON TOP of a folder icon. This is doable in OS's as late as Windows 10; not 7 or XP. I have a 10 machine right here and get the correct result. Right click the folder and click "Customize." Select a file to place on the folder and "Apply."
There WERE NO emoji's back then. Sorry.
No it didn't. I will go over it one more time . . .
Sorry, but this doesn't work. Did you ever have Windows 10, 7 or XP?
Apparently not. In those Windows Operating Systems, when you clicked "Customize/Choose a file to show on this folder icon," you could click a picture, in that folder and it would be FULLY displayed on the folder. Much like what I have attached. Unfortunately, my Windows 10 system isn't up now, so I cannot give an exact representation, but that is close. (Scott, by the way, you will find on an earlier page in this string.)
The way it used to be . . . (Thanks to azhotaz and Windows XP!
on page 3 of this thread . . .
See the pictures ON the folders?? Hello? That was the way it was!! That is what we want! Perhaps not 4 pictures, but 1 is good for me.
Lost a lot of people here, CarolAnnBurton2!
It's not a lot of "hocus pocus!, i.e. Keeping 2 of 3 things closed and yada, yada, yada!
Did you ever have Windows 10, 7 or XP?
Apparently not. In those Windows Operating Systems, when you clicked "Customize/Choose a file to show on this folder icon," you could click a picture, in that folder and it would be FULLY displayed on the folder. Much like what I have attached. Unfortunately, my Windows 10 system isn't up now, so I cannot give an exact representation, but that is close. (Scott, by the way, you will find on an earlier page in this string.)
The way it used to be . . . (Thanks to azhotaz and Windows XP!
on page 3 of this thread . . .
See the pictures ON the folders?? Hello? That was the way it was!! That is what we want! Perhaps not 4 pictures, but 1 is good for me.
No I replied as I did, because Microsoft DOES monitor these threads and I would like them to see my posts as often as possible. Here is another one . . .
Hello Sumit,
I disagree. IN Windows 11, when you go to folder properties, then customize, it states CLEARLY, "Choose a file to show on the folder icon."
What you write (in part), "With Windows 11, you can no longer see previews of the contents inside the folders," is contrary to the question. What I want to do is show a picture file on the folder, as I could in Windows 10.
If it is not possible to do that, then why does the option still exist in Properties/Customization?
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