If you are looking for a way to change the folder background in File Explorer of Windows 10, then this shows you the easy way to do it. While Windows 10 allows you to choose the dark theme to add black color to the folders, and Explorer, that’s about it. In this guide, we will show you how to change the folder background, add images to the folder background, customize text, etc. in Windows 10 Explorer.
Change folder background in Windows 10
There might be registry hacks available for this feature, but they don’t work for long. It’s better to use a free software which can do the same job for you.
How to Change your Desktop Background in Windows 10 Your desktop background (also called wallpaper) can be a picture from your personal collection or included with Windows, a solid color, or a slideshow playing selected pictures randomly on all displays. This tutorial will show you different ways to change the desktop background wallpaper or slideshow to what you like for your user account in. Personalizing Windows 10 is straight forward and intuitive. As with previous Windows versions, users may easily customize their background and lock screen images using the Personalization settings. Personalization settings in Windows 10 are accessible from the Start button under Settings Personalization (Background, lock screen, colors). Jun 27, 2019 If you would like to use the images in your Windows 10 wallpaper installation in some other way – for example, as a background on another device, or on an older version of Windows – you will need to find the actual location of the files being displayed.
We will use QTTabBar to achieve this. It does a lot more to enhance File Explorer experience, but you can also use it to change folder background in Windows 10.
Once you have downloaded and installed it, reboot the PC.
Now open File Explorer, switch to View Tab and then click on the Options menu.
Enable QT Command Bar. It will add a toolbar to the Windows Explorer. Click on the configuration icon > Appearance > Folder view.
Check the box for Base background color, and then you can choose Active and Inactive colors.
However, it works when you are only using the compatible view option in QTTabBar. In the options section, switch to Compatible Folder View. Check the box which says “Compatible listview style.” Apply, close the Windows Explorer, and then reopen it.
The colors should be applied!
Add Images as Background to Folders
You can also add images as background to folders, but it’s limited. Like you can see in the picture above, it doesn’t apply as background, but as a watermark.
Under Compatible Folder View, switch to Compatible folder view, and then go to the Watermark section.
Here, you can choose to add an image to folders containing general items, Documents, Pictures, Music and Videos. Next time when you open any folder, the background image will be available at the bottom right corner.
Advanced Background Features
Change Folder Background In Windows 10
While these options are enough to change folder background in Windows 10, you can choose to do more. Under the Appearance section, you can change base text color and border color. Similarly, under Compatible Folder View, you can customize column background color.
One step further, when you switch to View custom colors, you can change text color, background, and apply conditions like type, view, line, subject, and location.
Hope you find this freeware useful!
TIP: Windows 7 users can use Windows 7 Folder Background Changer to change the folder backround.
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hey guys, i have a problem with the slideshow part of the desktop as its not seeing sub-folders.
I've even added my pictures folder to my pictures library and selected the folder from the library
When i do this it doesnt see the sub-folders only the base folders( i can see the other folders in the explorer just the slideshow isnt seeing them)
But when i select a sub-folder with just pictures it shows them as it should.
In windows 7 (the windows version i upgraded from) we had to just simply link the folder with sub-folders to our 'my pictures' library before it shows everything in that folder including the sub-folders.
Desktop Background Folder Windows 10
Is there a way i can do the same thing in windows 10 home+pro (i have 2 computers with the problem, 1 home and 1 pro)
this has been driving me barmy trying to figure this simple thing out so any help would be awesome
p.s the only way as of now i know what would work is to put all my wallpapers/pictures into one folder but then whats the point of that since most people have their pictures organized into sub-folders