

  How to change the Win95 default yellow color folders to Mac folder icons
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   To change standard Win95 folder icons, you could either follow the steps 
below CAREFULLY, or you could get a shareware called Microangelo 2.1 from 
Impact Software and use a program called Microangelo Engineer to change the 
folder icon and rebuild the icon cache for you. The address is:

   "http://www.impactsoft.com/"		 or 

   "ftp://ftp.impactsoft.com/pub/impactsoft/ma21.zip" 

To do it yourself:
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   Note: If you have MS Plus installed, follow steps 1,2,4,5,6.
         If you don't have MS Plus, follow steps 1,2,3,5,6.

   1) Run Regedit.exe (Registry Editor should be used with precautions).

   2) On the left pane, keep opening until you get to the subkey -

	   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
		\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Shell Icons

   3) If you have MS Plus, jump to Step 4 now,
      otherwise look to the right pane. It should contain only one line.

	On the right pane, right click the mouse to create a 
	new string value called 3. Do it again for the value 4.

	Now you should see three lines:
	------------------------------------------------------
	 Name		| Data
	------------------------------------------------------
	[ab](Default)	  (value not set)
	[ab]3		  ""
	[ab]4		  ""
	
	
	------------------------------------------------------

	Now double click 3 and then in the "Value data" entry 
	of the popup window type:
	
	c:\program files\winmac\icons\folder.ico,0

	Similarly, double click 4 and type:

	c:\program files\winmac\icons\open.ico,0


	Now the right pane would become:
	-------------------------------------------------------
	 Name		| Data
	-------------------------------------------------------
	[ab](Default)	  (value not set)
	[ab]3		  "c:\program files\..(etc)..\folder.ico,0"
	[ab]4		  "c:\program files\..(etc)..\open.ico,0"


	-------------------------------------------------------

      Now you should jump to Step 5.

   4) This step assumes you have MS Plus and skipped step 3.
      On the right pane, scroll down to "3" for the folder icons 
      (about 20 lines down).

	Double click "3" to modify the data.

	For a standard Win95 without Plus, the default entry is
		"C:\WIN95\SYSTEM\shell32.dll,3"

	For Microsoft Plus folder, the default entry is
		"C:\WIN95\SYSTEM\cool.dll,11"

	To use Mac folder, change it to something like
		"C:\Program Files\WinMac\Icons\Folder.ico,0"

	Similarly, double click "4" to modify the data:
		"C:\WIN95\SYSTEM\shell32.dll,4" or
		"C:\WIN95\SYSTEM\cool.dll,18"
	with
		"C:\Program Files\WinMac\Icons\Open.ico,0"


   5) Restart your computer in DOS mode.

   6) At "C:\WIN95\" type:

	attrib -h shelli~1
		(to unhide a file called Shelliconcache)
	del shelli~1
		(to delete that file)
	exit
		(to restart Windows)

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Ritchie Chow
11 Sept 1996
