Colorful Folders

Colorful Folders

If you are like any computer user, then you will obviously have plenty of folders where you keep Word documents, spreadsheets, pictures, music and an endless list of other things. Sometimes the folders are so many that they may literally cripple your productivity and you may be in a devil of a time trying to find the folder with the document you need at the moment. Plus, with so many similar-looking yellow folders there's fair chance of deleting some important folder by mistake. So, to avoid these kind of mistakes and to make your folders more beautiful I have written this article. And I am sure After seeing screenshot of my folder window, will get stuck to this article.

With simple steps and a free software named Folder Colorizer you can do same as what I have done to my folders.

• Download Folder Colorizer. After downloading, run the FolderColorizerSetup.exe file to installit, read the License Agreement (as we usually read and click ‘Next’ to agree.

• If  in the middle of installation you are prompted to install Microsoft Dot Net 3.0 Framework. Then You may need to download the Dot Net 3.0 framework, open the package, read the terms of the License Agreement and if you accept, click on the ‘Install’ button.

• Click ‘Yes’ to proceed with the installation of Colorizer.

That’s it, installation is now complete. You are ready to add color to your desktop.

• To start coloring your folder with different colors, select any folder icon you want to change the color of, right click on it, select ‘Colorize!’ and then pick any preset color.
• Once you have selected a color for your folder, your folder icon color will change automatically from the standard yellow to the color you have justpicked, If it does not changes automatically then simply refresh or press F5
• Besides preset colors if you want to use custom colors, right click again, select ‘Colorize!’ and select ‘Custom…’
• From the window, you can pick any color you want to use, then click on ‘Add Color’.
• This custom color will be saved as a preset color, so the next time you want to use it, you can select it straight from the list.
• Restoring folders to original color is also easy, simply right click on the folder, select ‘Colorize!’ and pick ‘Restore original color’.
• The changes will be made immediately, and you will see that the color of your folder icon has returned to the original yellow.