Trouble with folder thumbnails/customization (HELP!)

Hey there,

I have a problem with the way Win7 displays folders: my whole music collection consists of folders that contain the songs and the covers (sometimes there are more than 2-3 images next to the audio files).
By default, W7 completely messes the folders: I'd like to be able to select the "main" cover for each folder - but Windows won't let me. Instead of that, the display randomly selects 2 or more images for the thumbnail.

This is how I'd like each folder to look:


Instead, I get one like this:


I tried setting the Customize tab exactly like in XP, but - when I select the image - nothing happens. The thumbnail remains the same.


Please help me out - what do I have to do so that I can have all my folders like in the first image?
Thank you in advance for helping out.

Hi C05T1N,
I'm not sure that this isn't a little GUI bug as I find I have change the folder view every now and again. Even if the view is set using the folder options tab it still likes to revert to a different view... I'm hoping that this will be cleared up by the time 7 comes through my letterbox or someone has a work around...

hi

i may have an idea for you
when i use Xp and i want to save time and not set every folder to the image i like i just found out this trick

1. you make the file that you want as a main thumbnail
2. you must save it as (folder.jpg) not the name of the folder just the word "folder"
3. put it the folder you like it to thumbnailed
4. after you make a lot of folders search for all the folder.jpg files and hide them

works in Win 7 for me great

Any fix for this? I'm having the same problem. Folder picture is totally ignored by Explorer when browsing files normally. It only works when viewing from a "save as" or "open" box, which makes no sense at all. I'm considering Explorer alternatives but I've yet to find anything that can give folders icons. Maybe the only workaround is to make a gallery of images with html.

Another OP has flown the coop!
Very nice of them...

XFox, did you try what Zivo suggested?
That nearly always works.

Cheers,
Fire Cat

Hmm, that actually works. Thanks . Is that a fluke accident or does Explorer search for folder.jpg and override Desktop.ini? It means having a duplicate image in every folder. If I had to, I'd rather make a separate folder for all folder pictures, although duplicates shouldn't be necessary. I wonder if there's a registry fix to stop Explorer from fanning multiple pictures as the folder picture and fall back onto XP's behavior, unless they removed it like they have many XP features as they moved forward to Vista and 7.

I don't think it is an accident. I think so because it is also the case in WMC; if you want to add a film cover to a movie that doesn't have one, you have to put a folder.jpg file inside the folder containing your movie.
So I would rather say it is a windows system setting.

I don't know of any registry mod for this. Sorry.