"Generally speaking, Windows has been pretty inflexible about the icons it displays for folders, shortcuts and such and giving files and folders more readily identifiable icons has required independent software products to do the job or some skilled manipulation of the Windows registry. If you are tired of the same old, anonymous icons on your desktop or for files, you can make all the changes you wish with a very approachable application called IconChanger. This versatile program integrates with Windows and becomes an option on the right-click context menu in Explorer. Highlight a file and choose change icon then assign the icon of you choosing (from a program, DLL, ICO file or from a bitmap image) and IconChanger associates that icon for you, either for a single file or file type (e.g. DOC, JPG etc). Easy to learn and use, IconChanger from Shell Labs is also agreeably priced. Check out the trial by going to www.shelllabs.com" - John O'Halloran, Australian Computer Trader.