Lovely Folders is a powerful utility to replace the standard folder icon for separate folders by any other icon you want.

In addition, you can replace the system-defined standard folder icon, which is used by Windows to display each folder on your computer. Overall, you will find that it is very easy to use.

Lovely Folders allows you to:
￭ Apply different icons to individual folders in a few mouse clicks
￭ Set an info tip for a folder
￭ Replace the system-defined standard folder icon
￭ Extract icons from icon files (ICO), icon libraries (ICL) and icon resources (EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, OCX etc.)
￭ Search for icons on your computer
￭ Copy icon to the current folder to make your folder icons independent from icon source files
￭ Rebuild the system icon cache to repair incorrect icon images
￭ Add your favorite icons to the user icon list to access them faster
￭ Create a template to make doing multiple identical changes of folder's appearance easier
￭ Extract all icons from the application associated with the specified type of files.

Here are some key features of "Lovely Folders":

· Lovely Folders automatically determines the content of a folder and recommends the most suitable icons for this folder
· LovelyConverter -- built-in icon converter -- simple and fast way to generate folder-look icons
· Supports ALL sizes (up to 128x128) and ALL color depths (mono, 16 colors, 256 colors, True-color and Windows 32-bit with alpha channel) of the icons
· Supports the following icon resources formats: Icon files (ICO), Icon Libraries (ICL), Icon Resources (EXE, DLL, CPL, SCR, OCX etc.)
· Supports JPEG, GIF images and bitmaps (BMP) as folder background
· Lovely Folders includes 3 icon packs with the highest quality icons (including Windows Vista color folder icons)
· All icons are sorted by categories, and when you select a category, Lovely Folders automatically displays specified icons. Moreover, Lovely Folders can scan your system and add ALL icons associated with the selected category to the list of icons
· Full integration with Windows Explorer (you can launch Lovely Folders using right-click popup menu)
· Supports drag-and-drop (you can drag any file or a folder into the "Change icon" window)
· Multilingual interface (20 languages included.
· Easy to use
· Vista-like convenient and friendly interface

Requirements:

· Intel Pentium, Celeron or AMD CPU - 500 MHz or more
· True Color (24/32 bits per pixel) Video card 800x600 or higher
· 64 MB RAM or more
· Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or newer

Limitations:

· 7 days trial period
· You cannot change folder info tip
· Nag screen

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Included 3 icon packs, new Vista-like interface