When photos are put into a folder in \My Pictures\, the folder icon itself displays 4 of them. How can one influence WHICH 4 are shown ? Basty

When photos are put into a folder in \My Pictures\ May help to say step-by-step the procedure you use to put photos in. the folder icon itself displays 4 of them. What is them ??? 4 photos ??? or 4 folders ???

Basty, Check out the instructions under "Manually create a folder picture" at the link below. How to modify your folder view settings or to customize a folder http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812003 Tufenuf

Chuck2 I right-clicked within My Pictures and selected New to create a folder. I changed its name. I selected the photos that I wanted to be in that folder, right-clicked in the selected area, clicked on Copy, clicked on the newly created folder to select it, right-clicked it for the Context Menu, clicked on Paste. The photos copied into the new folder, and four small photos appeared on the folder icon. By renaming the photos I changed their sort order, but the four images on the folder icon remained the same. Tufenuf I will follow this up and report after I've had access to that PC again. Basty

Thank you for your reply. All of my folders, in My Pictures, are the same a yours. Open the folder, then click "View" that up in the Menu Bar. You would see then that the folder is set for filmstrip view. That may be the cause.

Tufenuf Advice worked like a charm - with ONE reservation. The choice a User can make is for ONE picture, whereas the System places FOUR by default on the folder. Chuck2 You have thrown yet another light on this problem. It may be relevant to the issue I have outlined above to Tufenuf. When I said folder 'icon' in my original post, I did not realise that the four pics that the system selects, show not on an icon, but on a TILE (selectable in View Menu). Basty

Basty, Another thing you can try is to go into Folder Options>View tab and select Show hidden files and folders. Now go into any of those Picture folders and locate any thumbs.db files, right click them and choose delete. Many times those thumbs.db files store old pictures and doing this will not hurt anything and may give you the results you want. What is Thumbs.db? http://www.jakeludington.com/ask_ja... Tufenuf