“AnyFolder” version 1.04
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“AnyFolder” is a shell extension, which allows you to assign any icon
to any file folder in the Windows95 shell. You can customize icon 
for open and close state of the each folder of your choice. 

Take more fun from your Windows shell and increase your productivity 
with “AnyFolder” shell extension. Assign meaningful icons to important 
folders. Break rows of boring uniform folders with tailored icons. Let 
your eyes relax from monotony, and so increase your productivity. Take 
fun seeing how your folders open and close right on your desktop or 
inside another folder in various shapes.
“AnyFolder” installation set includes more than 20 couples of icons, 
suitable for various file folders.

“AnyFolder” is shareware. It means you can use it for free during trial 
period of 20 days. If you like it and want to use it legally after trial
period ends you have to register it.

How to install “AnyFolder”.
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To install “AnyFolder” right-click on the file Folders.inf, included in 
the installation set and choose “Install” from the context menu.
Samples of icons are contained in the AFIcons.dll, that placed inside
your Windows\System directory.
Make sure your computer clock is set to correct date before installing 
“AnyFolder” shell extension.

How to use “AnyFolder”.
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To assign tailored icon to the folder, right-click on the folder, choose
“Properties” from the context menu and go to the “Icon” property page.

How to get free icons for file folders.
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To get more icons, appropriate for file folders, visit web page at
 
http://oop.rosweb.ru/users/a/artem/index.html

How to register “AnyFolder”.
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If you wish to send order and obtain your registration information for
“AnyFolder” you may run “Register” application, included in the
installation set. 
Make sure to follow instructions in the dialog and it does the entire
job for you. Registration information will be e-mailed to you 
within 1 to 4 days.
To enter your registration information you have to press “Register“
button on “Icon” property page of any folder.

How to uninstall “AnyFolder”.
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To uninstall “AnyFolder” shell extension you may run “Add/Remove Programs”
from the Control Panel and double-click on the “AnyFolder”
shell extension.

Notes for this version of “AnyFolder”.
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This version is compatible with Windows95 and Microsoft 
Internet Explorer 4.0 Preview 2.

Tips and tricks. 
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1.  To manage, extract, edit and create icons you may use some tools, which 
can be found at www.download.com under category Multimedia & Design \Icons.
2.  To assign different icons to each hard drive in your system you may 
create file Autorun.inf  in the root directory, containing lines:
       [autorun]
       ICON=iconfilename,index
where iconfilename is full path to file, containing icon and index is     
number of image inside this file, usually 0.
3.  Most of shell icons are located inside Windows\System\Shell32.dll file.

Known problems for this version of “AnyFolder”.
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1.  You can see small icon of the folder unchanged in the left pane 
of the Windows Explorer the first time you have applied customization
to it. The icon will be correct next time you restart your computer.
2.  You can see plus tab in the left pane of the Windows Explorer for 
folder that does not actually contain subfolders.  This is due the way 
Windows shell manages extensions and will be fixed in the next version.
3.  You can see folder icon “flashes” when the folder closes under 
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, because its shell is not fully 
compatible with Windows95/NT.
4.  “AnyFolder” marks customized folders as read only. Windows 95
requires it to recognize customization.

Technical support.
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Registered users can address all questions directly to the author via 
e-mail artem@kagi.com. For unregistered users the author will answer 
all the questions about the trial period problems.

Please note: Kagi does not provide technical support for you, only the 
author does.


Artem Lin
artem@kagi.com
http://oop.rosweb.ru/users/a/artem/index.html