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  █▌     -   CHANGE WINDOWS XP FOLDER OR DRIVE BACKGROUND TO AN IMAGE   -    █▌
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 █ A friend saw a screen shot of one of my thumb drives and suggested that I  ▐▌
 █ make a tutorial how I set an image as the background. I thought a bit      ▐▌
 █ silly, but when I tried to get it to work on Windows 7 it just wouldn't :( ▐▌
 █ As far as I have read and tested you can't do this for Windows 7           ▐▌
 █ (possibly an IE 8 issue). If anyone finds out how, please post at mewbies  ▐▌
 █ forum, thanks! So until then, this is how on Windows XP.                   ▐▌
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 █ EXAMPLE OF A DIRECTORY WITH AN IMAGE AS THE BACKGROUND:                    ▐▌
 █ ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````                    ▐▌
 █ To view my example, download it HERE, unzip it, and open the directory     ▐▌
 █ you extracted from the zip.                                                ▐▌
 █ If you can not see the contents 'desktop.ini' and                          ▐▌
 █ 'background/mewbies.jpg':                                                  ▐▌
 █ In Windows Explorer menu select Tools/Folder Options/ select the View tab/ ▐▌
 █ check 'Show hidden files and folders. Press Apply, press OK, refresh your  ▐▌
 █ view.                                                                      ▐▌
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 █ TO CREATE A CUSTOM BACKGROUND DRIVE OR DIRECTORY:                          ▐▌
 █ `````````````````````````````````````````````````                          ▐▌
 
 █ 1. Create a directory to work in, for example name it background           ▐▌
 █ Copy an image into that directory, large enough to cover the area you use  ▐▌
 █ your Windows Explorer.                                                     ▐▌
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 █ 2. Open a text editor, such as Notepad, paste in the code below, changing  ▐▌
 █ mewbies.jpg to the name of your image:                                     ▐▌
 
[ExtShellFolderViews]
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=mewbies.jpg
IconArea_Text=0xFFFFFF
[.ShellClassInfo]
ConfirmFileOp=0

 █ Save this file as desktop.ini in the same directory as your image.         ▐▌
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 █ 3. Refresh the view. Done :)                                               ▐▌
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 █ NOTES:                                                                     ▐▌
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 █ 1. To have an image for a hard drive, thumb drive, or even your MP3 player ▐▌
 █ just copy your image and desktop.ini to the root of the drive.             ▐▌
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 █ 2. To hide from view the image file and Desktop.ini, right click on each   ▐▌
 █ file, select Properties (or keys Alt+Enter), check Hidden. If you can      ▐▌
 █ still see those files: in Windows Explorer menu select                     ▐▌
 █ Tools/Folder Options/ select the View tab/ check 'Do not show hidden files ▐▌
 █ and folders. Press Apply, press OK, refresh your view again.               ▐▌
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 █ 3. Note in my sample the text is white (since my image has a black         ▐▌
 █ background), this is achieved with 0x + hex color code: 0xFFFFFF           ▐▌
 █ To change the color of the text change that line:                          ▐▌
 █ IconArea_Text=0xFFFFFF                                                     ▐▌
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 █ There are on-line color converters, HERE is one, and HERE is one with a    ▐▌
 █ list of a variety of colors, just remember to add before the hex code: 0x  ▐▌
 █ Here are a few examples:                                                   ▐▌
 █ 0x000000 = black                                                           ▐▌
 █ 0xFF0000 = blue                                                            ▐▌
 █ 0xFFFF00 = blue light                                                      ▐▌
 █ 0xA8A8A8 = gray                                                            ▐▌
 █ 0x33CC00 = green                                                           ▐▌
 █ 0xFF00FF = magenta                                                         ▐▌
 █ 0xEAADEA = pink                                                            ▐▌
 █ 0xE10000 = red                                                             ▐▌
 █ 0xFFFFFF = white                                                           ▐▌
 █ 0x00FFFF = yellow                                                          ▐▌
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 █ 4. To use an image that is in another directory on the drive; include the  ▐▌
 █ full path before the image name.                                           ▐▌
 █ For example:                                                               ▐▌
 █ IconArea_Image=F:\Images\Wallpaper\reduced\mewbies2.jpg                    ▐▌
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 █ To use an image that is in a sub-directory of the directory containing     ▐▌
 █ desktop.ini; include the sub-directory before the image name.              ▐▌
 █ For example:                                                               ▐▌
 █ IconArea_Image=background/mewbies.jpg                                      ▐▌
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 █ If you find mistakes, have suggestions, and or questions please post at    ▐▌
 █ mewbies forum HERE - thank you.                                            ▐▌
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 █ Last update on 25 May '10                                                  ▐▌
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