Nov092012

Is it possible to resize a folder icon to appear bigger than the rest?

Terafall asks:

I want to create a folder bigger than the rest in my desktop so it will become a place to dump everything I download or copy from a pendrive.Since it is bigger it will stand out and that makes it easier to find


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Bruce Epper

November 9, 2012

You can adjust icon sizes, but it will apply to ALL icons on the desktop since it is a global setting.

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Boni Oloff

November 9, 2012

I dont think so. You cannot do this thing in Windows.

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Junil Maharjan

November 9, 2012

you can do it in linux desktops. don’t know about other OS

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Douglas Mutay

November 9, 2012

Unless you are using an app for skin and icon customization, you can’t do this in Windows original icons.

Boni Oloff

Yeah maybe there are software that can do this thing.
Icon customization software maybe can do this thing.

November 12, 2012
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Alan Wade

November 9, 2012

No, you cannot resize just one folder icon but you could change the icon for something a little more striking.
Right click on the folder and select properties, then click on change icon and navigate to your selected icon.
Once you have selected your icon and ‘OK’ed your way out then you may need to restart to see the change.

Stephen Sanders

I have a similar yet different issue using a Macbook:

I know you can change the colors of the folders with a Mac, yet I would like to be able to find the stuff lets say, that I downloaded yesterday (and finder does not always seem to keep track of all the downloads, or files or folder that I open or use. I wonder is other Mac users have had this issue?

Also finder only lets you get specific about: Today, Yesterday or Past Week, I wonder is there a way to modify or some sort of hack so that I can see stuff from last month or three months ago? I keep a messy desktop and never downloaded Google Desktop for the Mac, (now its discontinued or not supported) so sometimes I have trouble locating saved text boxes or other items from the past.

Ideas? [ Sorry if this seems like thread crashing, I thought it was kind of related to keeping files easily retrievable on the computer desktop. Spotlight helps but it seems you have to remember the exact name etc.

November 9, 2012
Douglas Mutay

Yes, this is the easiest thing regarding of the purpose he’s following.

November 9, 2012
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Rakesh Mishra

November 9, 2012

try it in fedora os

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Dimal Chandrasiri

November 9, 2012

windows doesn’t allow this feature. but ir you use a desktop customization tool like rainmeter or something you can achieve this!

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Gravity Dead

November 9, 2012

just do what alan suggested cause rainmeter and other things will consume a lot of time and resources too :|

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ha14

November 9, 2012

perhaps if you pin the folder to taskbar and use it there, perhaps you can change the size?

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Nikhil Chandak

November 9, 2012

No
u cannot re-size just one folder icon

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Naveen Kumar

November 9, 2012

no you cant do it for just one particular icon.If you want to make bigger icons just press and hold Ctrl key and scroll

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Dany Bouffard

November 9, 2012

Technically you could,just make a shortcut to your folder, than download an Icon that represent the Folder but in a bigger size.Then right click on the folder and change icon to the new bigger Folder icon and it should work.

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Rajaa Chowdhury

November 10, 2012

I dunno if you can resize a folder or not, but you can certainly colorize a folder differently to make it stand out than the rest by downloading a 3rd ppparty app. I guess the article was published sometime back in makeuseof. Just search clorize folder in makeuseof search ;)

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Aditya Roy

November 10, 2012

Changing icon as Alan suggested is the easiest option.

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