Windows XP Tips: How to create a thumbnail for your folder

If you have a folder of pictures, Windows XP chooses the four newest pictures as the thumbnails for the folder. If you look at the picture below, the second row of folders are examples of the default thumbnails pulled out by Windows.



What if you would prefer a different photo as the thumbnail?

All you have to do is to go to the picture you want as the thumbnail -- the picture must be within the root directory of the folder, that it, it mustn't be in another folder in the folder you are creating the thumbnail for, create a copy and rename that as "folder.jpg". That picture then becomes the thumbnail pic for the folder. See first and third folder on first row.

(To hide the file names, hold down the shift key when changing to "View Thumbnails".)