It's easier to change the 'My Pictures' folder icon directly:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\DefaultIcon

Enter the full path to an icon file, like this:
C:\Path to\icon.ico

For an exe or dll file, add ",0":
C:\Path to\file.dll,0

For either, do not add quotes.


ju.c


"FLKULCHAR" <FLKULCHAR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:57120CDB-E68D-47C5-90A6-7FABBA4F4982@microsoft.com...
> Is there a way to change the icon fo the "My Pictures" folder under
> Desktop\Documents and Settings\Francis Kulchar\My Documents
>
> It seems windows wants to prevent this from happening! I realize I could
> create a new folder, say My Pictures1...
>
> then copy the contents of My Pictures to the new folder...then it would
> work, but my My Pictures folder has 11,368 files within 318 folders!
>
> Thanks,
>
> FLKulchar