Editor: Rainbow Folders is a unique application that allows you to change color of any icon representing any folder. To make it short: with this program you can colorize your folders ! Such Operation will speed up your navigation among thousands of folders located on your hard drive. Would you like to mark your favorite folders with green color, your work or school folders with blue, and your personal documents and photos folders with red ? No problem. With Rainbow Folders you can colorize as many folders as you want using any color of your choice. Such colorized folders are visible in every Explorer window, every open/save dialog and in every folder selection tree as seen in many programs. In addition you can manage your favorite colors and colorize folders using Explorer Context Menu item. You can also add a custom hint or secure a folder from deleting it by mistake. This and much more can be done with the help of Rainbow Folders.
Features
Rainbow Folders has few interesting features that are worth mentioning:
- allows you to change folder color to any color, new folder icon is generated in real time each time you are colorizing a folder so it looks good in each of these sizes: 16x16, 32x32 and 48x48 Pixels,
- there are three icon styles supported: Classical (as in e.g. Windows 95), Typical (as in e.g. Windows XP) and Modern (as in Windows Vista), for each of those styles you can also choose alternative version,
- colorized folders are visible in whole system, also colorizing folders is safe because it's exactly same method as used by the system to modify various system folders (e.g. Favorites) icons, plus the program doesn't need to run all the time in background for the changed icons to be visible,
- you can add custom tooltip text visible after hovering mouse over folder for few seconds, also it is possible to add warning message protecting from accidental folder delete
