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Review: Folder Colorizer brightens up Explorer, may help navigation |
February 12, 2013
Microsoft Windows has been around since 1985, and one of the only things about it that hasn't changed is Windows Explorer (File Explorer in Windows 8). We still have the yellow folder tree-like structure, and many people may argue that it is comforting to have something familiar to hold onto, something that we all know, while the rest of Windows goes through dramatic changes. But some people depend on color to navigate successfully between folders, and all-yellow isn't going to cut it. If that's you, check out the free Folder Colorizer to add a dab of paint to the place and inject some color and life into the operating system. You may be surprised at the difference in not just your mood, but the efficiency of navigation.
Just right-click on the folder you want to colorize and choose your shade. If the one you want is not there, you can access a color table to make more colors.
Simply put, Folder Colorizer (as the name implies) allows you to assign a set color to each folder in Explorer. Upon installation (which also requires a system reboot), you are given some pre-set colors to start playing around with, and to install a certain color, all you have to do is right-click on the folder and go to the newly inserted "Colorize!" option in your right-click Explorer menu. From there, you can choose a color and the changes will take effect immediately.
If you don't like the color change, you have three options: You can change to another color, choose "restore original color " to completely undo everything, or reveal the hidden files in Explorer to reveal a temporary color file inside the folder. Delete that and your folder's original color will immediately re-appear.
The color table enables you to add and remove colors to get the ones you want.
If you don't care for the preset colors, you can delete them and start again, courtesy of a color wheel. However, this color wheel doesn't do RGB and HEX color codes, so nix any thoughts of getting that subtle shade that you simply adore. It only allows you to point to red, green, yellow, and so on, with slight shades of each. It's not bad, but RGB and HEX support would make it so much better.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027921/review-folder-colorizer-brightens-up-explorer-may-help-navigation.html
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