Special folder icons

In the process of moving my special folders from C:\Users to my data drive I seem to have lost the correct icon for Documents - it has the same icon as Downloads. Not a biggie but does anyone know how to change this in both Win 7 and Win 8?

 

Go to your data drive, right-click the icon and select the 'customize' tab. There should be a button at the bottom to change the icon. It's a bit different process for Windows 8:
http://makingwindowseasy.com/2012/07/19/windows-8-how-to-change-folder-icons/

 

Thanks for that. It's a fresh install of both 7 and 8 and atm 7 is downloading 152 updates rolleyes so I'll look at that tomorrow.

 

Seems to have corrected itself after installing all those updates but I can see now that your suggestion would have fixed it

 

Hey Earthling, why'd you do the OS re-installs? Something bad happen or was it just the ubiquitous, slow, inevitable degradation in performance?

 

Hi rusty. Fair enough question seeing as I'm always covered by Acronis - or so I thought! It started when my eSATA data drive failed, one of the two places I keep my images. I managed to get an exact replacement but the system would not boot, neither 7 nor 8.1. and I still don't know why. About a month previous I had changed boot manager from Grub4DOS (with isolated installs) to EasyBCD, in which each OS can 'see' the other. That has profound consequences for the entire boot configuration, as I began to realise when I had to restore an image from before the change in an attempt to get booting again. Long story short I finally had to accept that a dual reinstall was the only solution, but this time it's back to Grub4DOS where neither OS is even aware the other exists and each can always be booted even if the other disappears entirely.

I can hear plodr laughing and can understand why she doesn't ever dual boot. But TBH with Grub4DOS, which I have used for donkey's years, there is never a problem, it's very robust. But dual boot systems which use the Microsoft MBR, or others that work similarly, like EasyBCD, are delicate babes that are easily disrupted and not so easily repaired.

Happy Xmas to you and yours

 

I seemed to recollect I'd seen something to that effect not so long back. Took a bit of finding but -

I wasn't knocking or mocking plodr, I know you know all about that stuff. I dual boot 7 and 8 simply because we don't have computers all over the house and if I need to test something in either I can do so without getting off my backside. But I like also having the facility to boot bootable ISOs straight from my boot menu. I keep Linux and quite a number of disk management and rescue CD ISOs on a flash drive and can boot any of them either directly by interrupting the BIOS boot order, or indirectly via my boot menu. This multi capability, only possible with a boot manager, has turned a modest 6 year old PC into a very versatile system.