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#MARK FOLDERS WITH COLOR CODED ICONS WINDOWS 7#
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This review was conducted on a laptop running Windows 7 Professional 32-bit. One nice feature that I would like to see added is the ability to change the color of the letter/number for the icons listed under “ABC…”.Preferably I would like to be able to select custom colors, such as how you can select a color from a color wheel in an image editor. However, if I were a paying customer, I would except more of a choice of colors.

I didn’t mention this as a con under “The Bad” because I believe 12 colors is plenty.

Folder Marker Home is limited to a 12 colors (and their shades) selection when changing icons for folders.

Folder Marker Home does not support changing network folder icons.

Yet, there are three caveats worth mentioning: It is very easy to use, and can be extremely handy for those that want to customize the look of their folders. Overall, I really like Folder Marker Home.

If you want to undo all the changes made my Folder Marker Home, you can undo them all by going to “Action” -> “Rollback All Changes”.

You can customize the right-click context menu (“Mark Folder”) by going to “Action” ->”Customize ‘Mark Folder’ menu”:.

This context menu entry allows you to make quick changes to folders:

Folder Maker Home adds an entry to the right-click context menu for folders.Then add all the folders who’s icons you want to change… To make use of this feature, go to “Folders” and click on “Multiple Folders”.

Folder Marker Home gives you the ability to change the icon of multiple folders at once.To make use of this feature, check the checkbox for “Apply selected icon for all subfolders” under “Options” before you hit the “Apply” button when changing the icon of a folder. Folder Marker Home allows you to automatically change the icons of all subfolders that are inside the folder that you are changing the icon of.To make use of this feature, check the checkbox for “Make customized folder distributable” under “Options” before you hit the “Apply” button when changing the icon of a folder.

#MARK FOLDERS WITH COLOR CODED ICONS PORTABLE#

Folder Marker Home has the ability to change the icon of folders in such a way that the change will be carried over if you ever move that folder to another computer, or portable device.

Other things to note about Folder Marker Home:

#MARK FOLDERS WITH COLOR CODED ICONS FREE#

If you are looking for some good free custom icons, three good websites to checkout are, and. The “User’s Icons” tab allows you to import custom icons if you have any (you can import icons from ICO, ICL, EXE, DLL, CPL, or BMP files): By default, Folder Marker Home will only come with 10 icons from the “Everday Icon Set” (you can use all 10 icons without having to purchase the icon set). However, you need to buy this icon set separately if you want all the icons (it costs $19.95). NOTE: The developer has an “Everyday Icon Set” of 60+ icons. NOTE: There are 12 colors in total, but each color has three shades. If you ever want to revert the change, select the folder again, and go to “Action” -> “Restore Default Icon for Chosen Folder(s)”.Įach tab under “Folder Icon” has different icons that you select: After you hit the “Apply” button, the folder you selected will be changed to the icon you selected. To change the icon of a folder, you need to select that folder (click the green folder icon underneath “Folder” and browse for it), select the icon you want to change the folder to (you can pick any icon found under any of the tabs listed under “Folder Icon”), and hit the “Apply” button. This is what Folder Marker Home’s main program window looks like: Primarily the program is geared towards allowing you to colorcode the folders, but it also allows you to do other things like add a number to a folder, add a letter to a folder, etc. However, taking into consideration that Folder Marker Home does not offer anything revolutionary (most, if not all, of what it does can be either done manually or with another software) I think $15 is a much better price.įolder Marker Home is a very simple, yet effective, program that allows you to easily change the icons for the folders on your computer.

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