Re: FOLDER VIEWS

You're welcome -- and you helped simplify the solution! So thanks to you as well.

I had read the post and my first thought was to use a picture that was a capture of a section of the 96 x 96 folder icon. So I exported the icon, grabbed a thin vertical section of the center and saved that -- then assigned that image as the default folder picture. It worked great. Logged back on all ready to talk about extracting resources :) -- and saw your post. Tried it with a zero-byte file & that worked, then decided to go one better & try a non-existent file. Apparently, if the logo value is completely empty, it doesn't override anything, but as long as there is some text there, the thumbnail generator doesn't try to preview the folder contents.

Off topic: Wish you were going to the Summit!!


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]


"Ramesh, MS-MVP" <ramesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O$Za2rLNHHA.5064@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Excellent! Thanks Keith.

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"Keith Miller MVP" <k.miller79@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:er8jfUJNHHA.4000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
One of the following registry entries should do the trick:

Machine-Wide:

Create the following key:

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell"
"Logo"="C:\nonexistent.bmp"
"WFLags"=dword:00000000


Per-User:

Create the following key:

"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\AllFolders\Shell"
"Logo"="C:\nonexistent.bmp"

make sure the file "nonexistent.bmp DOES NOT exist.


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Good Luck,

Keith
Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]

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