Change Folder Background Image in Windows

First of all you need to change the folder that you want to customize into a system folder. To do that, go to start>run and type cmd. At the command menu, type

attrib +s c:\yourfolderthatyouwanttocustomize

It’ll change the attribute to “system“.

Now open Notepad and paste following code:

[ExtShellFolderViews]{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC} =
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1

IconArea_Image=path_of_the_wallpaper
IconArea_Text=0×00000000

Now change “path_of_the_wallpaper” to the exact path of the wallpaper which you want to set as background. Suppose the wallpaper is stored in “C:\Wallpaper\rapidfire.jpg”, then the code will be as following:

[ExtShellFolderViews]{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC} =
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1

IconArea_Image=C:\Wallpaper\rapidfire.jpg
IconArea_Text=0×00000000

If you copy the wallpaper in the same folder which you are editing, then you can simply put the wallpaper name in the file. e.g. if you copy the “rapidfire.jpg” file in “yourfolderthatyouwanttocustomize” folder, then the code will be as following:

[ExtShellFolderViews]{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC} =
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1

IconArea_Image=rapidfire.jpg
IconArea_Text=0×00000000

“IconArea_Text” stands for the text color, you can change it to any color. You just need to know the hexa-decimal number of the color and then replace the code in “IconArea_Text” section. A few most used color codes are as follows:

0x00000000 = black
0x00FF0000 = blue
0x0000FF00 = green
0x000000FF = red
0x00C000C0 = purple
16777215 = white
0x00CCCCCC = grey
0x0000FFFF = yellow
0x000088FF = orange
0×00FFFF00 = indigo

Now save the file with name “Desktop.ini” (including quotes) and copy the file in the desired folder which is “yourfolderthatyouwanttocustomize” in our example.

Press F5 or Refresh. Now it should show the wallpaper as background.