Windows Explorer Background Images

Give this 2 minutes of your time.  I’m sure you’ll like it.  Ever get confused which hard drive you are working in?  Well, the Windows Explorer can put different backgrounds on them to help you remember.  Just create a file at the root of your drive called desktop.ini and place the following in it:

 

[ExtShellFolderViews]

{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

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

Attributes=1

IconArea_Image=background.gif

 

Next, find a washed-out image or create a light color in MSPAINT and put it there called background.gif. (be sure to make the file type a GIF too)  Open Windows Explorer and see your creation!  It makes me remember that I’m on my external drive instead of my internal one.