Windows 11 Folder custom Icon Issue

Hello . . .

I think I got the new purpose of "Choose a file to show on this folder." Please see Ramesh's post on page 2 (in July) of this thread. You'll see the new result there. Half the folder is in the way of the picture file.

I'm afraid the old way (see the image below (roughly done!)) is/will be gone.

Hate it myself. Image needs to be .jpeg too, which Windows loves to not recognize after a length of time, but that's a whole 'nother issue.

I'm going back to Windows 10.

William,

Good news. I was playing with ResHacker and managed to do the following by hacking IconGroup6.

Folder #1 is assigned a custom image -- folderlogo.jpg.

Folder #2 has a file named folder.jpg inside.

Folder #3 not customized, it shows the preview of folder contents. That folder has a vbs, zip, jpg, and log file, but it managed to show only the script file icon/thumb in the preview.

Now, compare the above image with the original ones I posted earlier.

FWIW.

Edit: By cropping the IconGroup6 even further, I think we can mimic the folder thumbnail like the one you posted.

I don't believe current top management knows what users think. Maybe they use Apple devices! A folder preview had been available for decades!! It's a pain to have to do it for each file however. Then I found it would automatically assign an object in the file without going through that cumbersome process. Great. Now nothing. If there's something out there that I can go to instead, I would. Dear Mr. Satya Nadella, make decisions on what your customers want and actually ask before you remove "services ". $ and stock price seem to be determinant in today's world, not us.

Hello Ramesh,

Well, thanks for that. It's better than just nothing, and there is something recognizable there, though the bottom of the folder still blocks a third of the image. Your examples show it's blocking a lot less now. Not sure how to do that, but my OS isn't there yet anyway. It's only at 22000.856, so I imagine it'll be awhile. When it's ready, I'll be back to bug you about ResHacker and IconGroup6. You know a lot more about this workaround than I do.

But, the big question is - Why change something which was working? To show it's a Folder? I KNOW it's a folder! I created it! To preview it's contents? The pic' does the general clue to the contents. That's all I need. Dang! Why'd they go and break something working just fine?

Anyway, yeah . . . I still like the "old way," since then the picture didn't have to be a .jpg, which seem to get unrecognizable to the OS every once in a while. All mine, shown on folders are .png, which prevents the image from vanishing. A little off-track, sorry. Windows 10 is better. With that OS I can see the picture (.png type), the subject and the fact it's a folder. I don't need half the friggin icon coverin' two thirds of the pic'! It looks "shoddy and undone." (Though you did somehow uncover another third percent!)

Anyway, thanks for the bit of a workaround! You did free up some 30% more photo! Unfortunately, ALL my folders have a corresponding picture, of subject.

William

I'll second that! Don't remove things which are working! Some DO use them!