If you look closely, you have two options for changing the
display of the folders. Both work via the context menu. It can be called up by
right-clicking on the folder whose icon you want to change.
Windows 10 - change folder icons
Windows 10 version
21H1
By default, Windows uses light yellow folders to represent
directories.
02Customize folder
icons
Now select the Properties option and switch to the Customize
tab . Click in the category folder icons on the button Change Icon . Then
select the desired folder icon in the new dialog box and accept it by clicking
the OK button. If you later want to return to the default view, click on
Default values at this point . You can then also close the properties window
with OK .
03Adjust folder
images
In the same dialog that you reach under Properties /
Customize , you can also specify the image that is displayed within the
standard folder symbol - between the folders, so to speak. To do this, click on
the Select file button in the Folder images section .
Windows then opens a separate window that is similar to the
familiar file manager dialog. There you navigate to the desired image file,
select it and click on Open . Finally, apply your changes with the OK button.
Here, too, you can switch back to the default view, if necessary, by clicking
the Restore button in the properties window.
Enable filename
extensions
First of all, it is advisable to display the file extensions
that are hidden by default. You can contact this option by clicking on the View
tab in Windows Explorer and then activating the File name extensions check box
. The full name will now appear.
Windows 10 - Compress
files and folders
Windows 10 version
21H1
By default, Windows hides the extensions for known file
types, which can be confusing.
02Select folders and files
Then select the folders and files that you want to compress
in the file manager. However, these must be in the same directory. It does not
work to start a second instance of the explorer in order to pack files from
different paths into a common archive. For such tasks you should use a tool
like the free 7-Zip.
03Send to ZIP compressed folder
Then open the context menu of the selection by
right-clicking on the selected files or folders. Now select the command Send to
and in the submenu that opens, ZIP-compressed folder . Windows then creates a
ZIP file in the same directory, the suggested name of which you can overwrite
directly.
In addition to the .zip file extension, the generated file
can also be easily recognized by the folder symbol with a zip. Double-click
this file to open the archive and access its content.
