Yellow is the default folder icon color for a decade and it is the choice of color of Microsoft. How does it look it all the folders have different colors or images? It would definitely look great and helps you to find the folder you are looking for easily. Changing the color or icon of a folder also enable us to know important folders and urgent folders from the bunch.

For changing folder icons easily there are several applications available. Pick one of your choices and customize folder icons with icons of your choice or for the list of icons included in the application. With these applications make your folders look colorful and informative.

Folderico

Folderico is small free application that allows you to change icon of a selected folder. You can also just change the color of an icon for a quick reference. For example you can use red color to the folder that contains important or urgent documents. Green color of the folder that contains music, etc., in this way you can manage folders better. All the changes that you have made to a folder retains even if you transfer the folder to another computer.

Folder Highlight

Folder Highlight is one another similar application like the one above. Using this application you can only change the color of a folder but not its icon. User interface is very simple and you can change color of a folder icon in just one click. Right click on the folder and from the menu click on a color that you want to apply.

jFolder

jFolder allows you to do a little bit more than just changing the folder icon. Using jFolder you can also customize drives icons and some other system icons like My Documents and Recycle Bin. This program works well on Windows 98 and 2000 versions but have some limitations in Windows XP. Overall performance and ease to use is excellent and helps you to identify folders at a glance.

Magic Folder Icon

Magic Folder Icon is a very versatile application which allows you to change folder icon quickly and easily. This program can even change icons of every folder on the system making each folder unique and easy to identify. User interface of Magic Folder Icon is very simple and it is available in four different languages for free.

Folder Icon Changer

Folder Icon Changer has the feel and look of Mac system. You can easily change icon of a folder with this simple to use program. It will automatically search for icons in files and folder and you can also export icons as bmp, jpg, jpeg files. So by using this application you can make folder look beautiful and alive.

Custom Icons

Custom Icons is a complete answer for all your icon requirements. Custom Icons can allow you to change icons on your desktop, start menu and any other icon on your system to that matter. You can create custom icons using images and photos of your. It has got many other interesting factions which you can perform easily.

Folder Iconizer

With Three easy and simple steps, you can choose any icon to use as a folder icon. It is very easy to use in the first step you have to choose a folder that you want to customize and in the second step select an icon to use. In the third and final step your preference will be completed with just a click. It also allows you to drag and drop folder that you want to customize and also select transparence level of folder icon.

Customize my folder

Customize my folder is a superb application to use for customizing and changing icon of a folder. Using this application you can also change the background of the folder with an image of your choose.

Folder Maker

Folder maker will apply custom icons to folder so it will be easy to find folders. It has got some predefined folder icons which help you to easily mark folders like high priority, pending, etc. You can also use color code to show the importance or content inside the folder.

Lovely Folder

Lovely folder allows you change normal yellow windows folder icons to icons that are eye catching and colorful. User interface of this small application is very simple and easy to understand. It has got some hundreds of colorful icons built-in to choose from.

Style Folder

Style Folder is a small and free application that can be used to change folder icon and background. With this application you can also change the color of text and info tip. Style Folder works on Windows XP. The best thing about this application is changes made using this application will be restored even when the folder is copied on to another system.