![]() ![]() If you do not want such a long color selection menu, then you can also remove colors using this color picker window. If you keep adding new colors, the color selection context menu would become too long. The color picker automatically gives a name to whatever color you choose using the color circle. If you do not like any of these colors, then you can select Colors… and it would open a color selector window where you can add your own custom color. There are eight pre-defined colors in the sub-menu – yellow, lawngreen, red, blue, silver, violet, sandy brown, aquamarine. ![]() Just right-click on a folder and select Colorize! and then pick a color from the sub-menu. This Free Activation window does not appear again, after you have activated it.Īfter the activation, you are all set to change the colors of your folders. But this further brings up a Free Activation window which requires you to enter your email address and click on the Free Activation button as shown. For changing the color of a folder, all you have to do is to right-click on a folder and select Colorize! and then pick a color from the list. ![]() But it installs the right-click context menu option in Windows Explorer for all the folders. If you try to run it from the Start Menu shortcut, it does not run. After the installation, nothing happens – there is no message that Folder Colorizer is installed successfully. During the installation, it offers to install a third party software which is not required for the Folder Colorizer to work properly – so you can choose not to install it. The download is available in form of an installer. You can download it from the Softorino website. It is available for Windows XP, Vista and 7. This way you can set different colors for your different kinds of folders (e.g., music, picture and video folders) and make them very easy to identify.įolder Colorizer is a Windows application designed by Softorino. Folder Colorizer does exactly that – it allows you to change the color of a folder to whatever you like. Our task of finding a folder would become much easier if each folder had a different visual appearance. We scroll up and down the list of folders in Windows Explorer multiple times before we finally pin-point the one we wanted. But when we try to find a folder from so many of them, we just cannot seem to find them easily. Pre-defined colors are fine, but you can make a folder icon truly unique: compose your own color! Select "More Icons" in the FolderIco menu to see the folder customization windowĬlick the "Change Color" button and choose the color you like.Everybody keeps their files well arranged in multiple folders – one folder for summer vacation pictures, one for oldies music MP3s, one for personal documents, one for Christmas pictures and so on. Click the color you like and the folder instantly becomes of that color. Under the "Change Icon" submenu you can find pre-defined colors to apply to the folder. ![]() In any Explorer window, right-click a folder to open the context menu. Option 1: Applying another color to a folder Smoothly integrating to the Explorer shell, it allows you to change colors and icons of any folder in the system in just 5 seconds. Our brains differentiate visual images much faster.įolderIco can't fix your brain, but it can change colors of the standard yellow folders to something more visually appealing. The only true difference is their names, and psychology claims it's the worst distinction of all for us, humans. Well, maybe not exactly hard, but they do not help much. Sounds boring enough to change, but aside from dull sameness, typical folder icons are hard to navigate through. Different day - same yellow folders all over your computer. ![]()
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