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» Review Lovely Folders 3.0

(October 2006)

 

Lovely Folders is a powerful utility to customize your Windows folders. Using this handy program you can replace the standard folder icon for individual folders with any eye-catching icon you wish, chosen from hundreds of built-in colorful icons or generated automatically by internal IconConverter depending on the content of a folder (music, video, images, etc.). Moreover, Lovely Folders can change folder background! Your individual folders now may have a background image - just like your desktop.

Lovely Folders allows you to:
Apply different icons to individual folders in a few mouse clicks
Put any picture as a wallpaper to a folder
Set an info tip for a folder

Replace the system-defined standard folder icon, which is used by Windows to display each folder on your computer
Extract icons from icon files (ICO), icon libraries (ICL) and icon resources (EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, OCX etc.)

Search for icons on your computer
Copy icon to the current folder to make your folder icons independent from icon source files

Rebuild the system icon cache to repair incorrect icon images
Add your favorite icons to the user icon list to access them faster

Create a template to make doing multiple identical changes of folder's appearance easier
Extract all icons from the application associated with the specified type of files

Powerful features:

Supports ALL sizes (up to 128x128) and ALL color depths (mono, 16 colors, 256 colors, True-color and Windows XP 32-bit with alpha channel) of the icons
Supports the following icon resources formats: Icon files (ICO), Icon Libraries (ICL), Icon Resources (EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, OCX etc.)
Supports JPEG, GIF images and bitmaps (BMP) as folder background
Lovely Folders automatically determines the content of a folder and recommends the most suitable icons for this folder
Built-in icon converter - simple and fast way to generate folder-look icons

Lovely Folders includes an icon pack with the highest quality icons
Easy updating procedure for the icon sets - simple download and install new icon packs with the highest quality icons

All icons are sorted by categories, and when you select a category, Lovely Folders automatically displays specified icons. Moreover, Lovely Folders can scan your system and add ALL icons associated with the selected category to the list of icons
Full integration with Windows Explorer (you can launch Lovely Folders using right-click popup menu)
Supports drag-and-drop (you can drag any file or a folder into the "Change icon" window)
Multilingual interface
Easy to use
Convenient and friendly interface

Size: 1.54 MB Download Lovely Folders 3.0 Screenshots

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