WHAT I’D LIKE TO SEE IN CUSTOMFOLDER

It would be great if it was possible to quickly change the colour of a folder through File Explorer’s right-click context menu without needing to go through the main program interface. Moreover, it would be useful if you could also use this option to remove any changes you no longer wanted. do this, I click the Personal Icon Panel button 3 then drag an icon/image (in PNG or ICO format) into the space below the ‘Personal icons’ heading 4 . To apply these icons, simply click them, then click the tick at the top 5

to save the change, and the icon will appear on your desktop 6 .

The emblems panel (accessed by clicking the button with a bookmark - 7 in our screenshot below left) lets you add up to nine emblems to an icon. You position it by clicking a number in the pad – 1 is top left, 9 is bottom right 8,

and so on. I add my own personalised

emblems (yes, I’m a fan), so the robot R2-D2 sits top right 9 .I do this by resizing the original image to 85x85 pixels, then saving it in PNG format and dragging it on to the emblems panel.

The risk with Customfolder is that you can get carried away with changing folder colours and styles, to the point where you can’t find the ones you want because none of them stand out anymore. I try to avoid this with a two-tier system: for folders I don’t open often I simply change the colour, while those I open every day have a personalised icon and emblem. It’s not perfect, but I no longer waste time wondering where Wally has got to.