Please, can anyone tell me how to change the folder icon? Default is in the shell32.dll. But I'd like to use my own. Please, help.

You can do it many ways... If you want to change lots of icons (and also change sounds, desktop wallpaper, cursors, etc. if you want) then you should download "Desktop Architect" from desktoparchitect.com. It's a fun theme manager program (way better then Microsoft's Plus!)and easy to use. You then make your own icons, or download some from the web and change them as often as you want. You can also change icons on your desktop and in your start menu by right clicking on the folder you want to change, select properties, and there is usually a "change icon" button.

This particular way of doing thing is restricted to : [1] Appearance change only on the left panel of explorer and on individual directory and also can be pasted to desktop as shortcut to it; [2] Only for folder located at the root of logical drive; and [3] Indifference with whether the folder is being view (ie opened) or close. Under the folder X:\Folder (note : located at root), use nodepad say to create a text file X:\Folder\desktop.ini and enter the following lines : [.ShellClassInfo] IconFile=[drive:][path]iconfile.ico IconIndex=0 Save it and change its attribute to include hidden and have your iconfile.ico ready. That is about it. If you've already customized that folder, you may just add the two lines to the existing desktop.ini under [.ShellClassInfo]. To do the similar icon change globally, there exists utilities out there which may do that. But I won't recommend using. The above need no 3rd party utility. I am not aware of any registry hack which can achieve global change including the difference between folder opened and closed. I need to look harder, but it might be theoretically impossible meaning without the Windows source code modified. Would like to know, though, if somebody is better informed.