How to Set up Folder wallpaper in windows XP

 wallpaper as background image of any folder in Windows XP

1.Desktop.ini Trick to Set a Wallpaper as Folder Background Image

Open Command Prompt and set folder attribute to system using attrib command. Suppose there is a folder "Setup" in "D:\" drive, in which you want to set a wallpaper as background image. So give following command in Command Prompt

attrib +s D:\Setup

It'll change the folder attribute to system.

2.Now open Notepad and paste following code:

[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC} = {BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image=D:\Wallpaper\Image1.jpg
IconArea_Text=0x00000000

NOTE: If you copy the wallpaper in the same folder which you are editing, then you can simply put the wallpaper name in the file. e.g. if you copy the "Image1.jpg" file in "Setup" folder, then the code will be as following:

3. Now save the file with name "Desktop.ini" (including quotes) and copy the file in the desired folder which is "Setup" in our example.

4. That's it. Close the folder and re-open it. Now it should show the wallpaper as background.

Note :

"IconArea_Text" stands for the text color, you can change it to white, yellow, blue, black or any other color. You just need to know the hexadecimal number of the color and then replace the code in "IconArea_Text" section. A few widely used color codes are as follows: