Choosing a Folder Template

Choosing a Folder Template :
Windows XP does not include the Customize This Folder Wizard,
which lets you assign pictures and HTML templates as backgrounds
to folders in earlier versions of Windows Explorer. Instead of taking
you to the wizard, the View, Customize This Folder command now
puts you on the Customize tab of the folder’s Properties dialog box,
as shown in Figure, where you can choose one of the folder templates
that Windows supplies, assign a picture to a folder or change a
folder’s icon altogether. On the Customize tab of a folder’s
Properties dialog box, you can choose a Template, assigns a picture,
and changes the folder icon.
The seven supplied templates are as follows:
● Documents (for any file type)
● Pictures (best for many files)
● Photo Album (best for fewer files)
● Music (best for audio files and playlists)
● Music Artist (best for works by one artist)
● Music Album (best for tracks from one album)
● Videos
Most of the time, you’ll find that Windows applies an appropriate
template without any help From you. If you use Microsoft Windows
Media Player to copy tracks from an audio CD to Your hard disk,
for example, Windows Media Player creates an artist folder,
Stores an album folder within that artist folder, and stores the
individual audio tracks in that album folder. The Music Artist
template is applied to the artists’ folder, and the Music
Album template is applied to the album folder as you would expect.
If Windows finds Ordinary documents in a folder, it assigns it the
Documents template, and so on.
To choose a template other than the one Windows assigns by default,
follow these steps:
1 Right-click a blank space in the folder.
2 Choose Customize This Folder.
3 In the Use This Folder Type as a Template list, choose a template.