Customizing Background of a folder or Thumb drive in MS Windows XP SP2

You may have noticed a file desktop.ini in the system. A few changes in it enables you to set the background of a folder. For this purpose following steps has to be kept in mind for MS Windows XP SP2

1. Make the requisite folder attribute as system by followin command in DOS

attrib +s

e.g

c:\> attrib +s myfolder

2. Create a file "Desktop.ini" in the folder with the content

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image= image_name_with_path
iconarea_text= color_code

color code like 0x0000FF00

e.g

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINXP\Documents\My Pictures\Sample Pictures\sunset.jpg
iconarea_text=0x0000FF00


Note: It suports any image like bmp, jpg, png, gif

Now the folder will look like