Customize Folder

Customize Folder is a tiny and portable program that gives you the possibility to personalize your favorite folders by changing their icon and background image, among others. It can be integrated into the Windows Explorer right-click menu for quick access.

You can save the downloaded files in any part of the hard disk and just click it to launch the tool. Unless you add it to the shell extension, it doesn't make any changes in the Windows registry. Another option is to keep it stored on a USB flash drive, in order to use it on any computer with minimum effort and no previous installers.

As for the interface, Customize Folder adopts a single window with a plain and easy-to-navigate structure, where you can select folders for the icon and background, as well as adjust the icon size to a value ranging between 32x32 and 128x128 pixels.

It's possible to apply a custom icon size, modify the default paths for the quick icons, as well as integrate the application into the Windows Explorer context menu, in order to swiftly personalize the icon of a selected directory by simply opening its right-click menu.

Settings can be restored to default anytime. Advanced users are free to tinker with the configuration settings available in the .ini file. Moreover, the utility's entry can be removed from the shell extension by following several steps.

This software application contains simple and effective options for customizing folder icons. Although it hasn't been updated for a long time, our tests have shown that it still works on newer Windows editions. Its footprint on the system resources was minimal. You can test Customize Folder for yourself if you're looking to enhance your OS by modifying directory icons.