A little FrontPage fun trick for those that like to tinker.

[Steve Easton]

For those who have disk based webs, located in My documents\My webs or
some other place on the drive.

What makes your web folder have the blue globe is a hidden desktop.ini
file
contained inside the folder.
Set your machine to show hidden files and you'll see it.

Opened in Notepad it contains this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

If you have made a favicon.ico file for your website and it's in the
root folder, change the line:
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
to this:
IconFile=favicon.ico

You can also change the text in this line:
InfoTip=Stores your local web site
to read whatever you want, such as:
InfoTip=mywebsitename

Save the file and when your browsing for your web site in windows or
FrontPage, the blue globe folder icon will be replaced with your
favicon, and when you hover the mouse over the folder the text you
entered will show.

Hope someone has some fun with this.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

 

[Wally S]

And it works. Thanks.

Wally S

 

[Steve Easton]

;-)

Thanks for the feedback.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
........................with a computer

And it works. Thanks.

Wally S

For those who have disk based webs, located in My documents\My webs or
some other place on the drive.

What makes your web folder have the blue globe is a hidden desktop.ini
file
contained inside the folder.
Set your machine to show hidden files and you'll see it.

Opened in Notepad it contains this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

If you have made a favicon.ico file for your website and it's in the
root folder, change the line:
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
to this:
IconFile=favicon.ico

You can also change the text in this line:
InfoTip=Stores your local web site
to read whatever you want, such as:
InfoTip=mywebsitename

Save the file and when your browsing for your web site in windows or
FrontPage, the blue globe folder icon will be replaced with your
favicon, and when you hover the mouse over the folder the text you
entered will show.

Hope someone has some fun with this.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer

 

[Jim Wood]

Neat!

 

[Trevor L.]

Funny

I have some folders which have the blue globe and when hovering over it the
tooltip states "Stores your local web site". But there is no file
"desktop.ini". (I have "Show hidden files" active.)

On another folder, I copied the code into "desktop.ini". This file appears,
but the blue globe doesn't, nor does the tooltip

;-)

 

[Steve Easton]

Funny

I have some folders which have the blue globe and when hovering over it the
tooltip states "Stores your local web site". But there is no file
"desktop.ini". (I have "Show hidden files" active.)

Are the "folders" the root folders for front page webs??

On another folder, I copied the code into "desktop.ini". This file appears,
but the blue globe doesn't, nor does the tooltip

What kind of other folder??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

 

[Steve Easton]

Also, repair / refresh your icons.
Control Panel > TweakUI > Rebuild Icons.


--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

Funny

I have some folders which have the blue globe and when hovering over it the
tooltip states "Stores your local web site". But there is no file
"desktop.ini". (I have "Show hidden files" active.)

On another folder, I copied the code into "desktop.ini". This file appears,
but the blue globe doesn't, nor does the tooltip

;-)
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

For those who have disk based webs, located in My documents\My webs or
some other place on the drive.

What makes your web folder have the blue globe is a hidden desktop.ini
file
contained inside the folder.
Set your machine to show hidden files and you'll see it.

Opened in Notepad it contains this:

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

If you have made a favicon.ico file for your website and it's in the
root folder, change the line:
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
to this:
IconFile=favicon.ico

You can also change the text in this line:
InfoTip=Stores your local web site
to read whatever you want, such as:
InfoTip=mywebsitename

Save the file and when your browsing for your web site in windows or
FrontPage, the blue globe folder icon will be replaced with your
favicon, and when you hover the mouse over the folder the text you
entered will show.

Hope someone has some fun with this.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
.......................with a computer

 

[Trevor L.]

The structure is
My Documents
My Webs
myweb
index.html
......... many other *.html ......
Martin
desktop.ini
index.html
myweb is the folder which has a globe but no desktop.ini
Martin is the "other" folder which has no globe but has deskop.ini
Contents of desktop.ini are:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

Folder Martin and Martin\index.html were not created in FP, but is that
relevant to Windows Exploerer ?

P.S. I ran Control Panel > TweakUI > Rebuild Icons.

Yes, I do like to tinker which is why this diversion interests me. I have
had success in getting the blue globe to appear before.

 

[Trevor L.]

Steve,
Just a follow-up.

When I wrote that desktop.ini was not present in certain folders, it didn't
show when "Show hidden files" was unchecked in Folder Options, but a search
of the folders under My Webs found it. Strange!!

By copying fpdbw.ico and setting up desktop.ini to refer to it, I got the
icons on the folders.

So all is well ))
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

The structure is
My Documents
My Webs
myweb
index.html
......... many other *.html ......
Martin
desktop.ini
index.html
myweb is the folder which has a globe but no desktop.ini
Martin is the "other" folder which has no globe but has deskop.ini
Contents of desktop.ini are:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

Folder Martin and Martin\index.html were not created in FP, but is
that relevant to Windows Exploerer ?

P.S. I ran Control Panel > TweakUI > Rebuild Icons.

Yes, I do like to tinker which is why this diversion interests me. I
have had success in getting the blue globe to appear before.
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

Are the "folders" the root folders for front page webs??



What kind of other folder??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
..............................with a computer

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

FYI: This could be misleading if the folder is not a true FP web folder.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================

Steve,
Just a follow-up.

When I wrote that desktop.ini was not present in certain folders, it didn't show when "Show hidden
files" was unchecked in Folder Options, but a search of the folders under My Webs found it.
Strange!!

By copying fpdbw.ico and setting up desktop.ini to refer to it, I got the icons on the folders.

So all is well ))
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

The structure is
My Documents
My Webs
myweb
index.html
......... many other *.html ......
Martin
desktop.ini
index.html
myweb is the folder which has a globe but no desktop.ini
Martin is the "other" folder which has no globe but has deskop.ini
Contents of desktop.ini are:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

Folder Martin and Martin\index.html were not created in FP, but is
that relevant to Windows Exploerer ?

P.S. I ran Control Panel > TweakUI > Rebuild Icons.

Yes, I do like to tinker which is why this diversion interests me. I
have had success in getting the blue globe to appear before.
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

Funny

I have some folders which have the blue globe and when hovering over
it the tooltip states "Stores your local web site". But there is no
file "desktop.ini". (I have "Show hidden files" active.)

Are the "folders" the root folders for front page webs??


On another folder, I copied the code into "desktop.ini". This file
appears, but the blue globe doesn't, nor does the tooltip

What kind of other folder??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
..............................with a computer

 

[Andrew Murray]

FYI: This could be misleading if the folder is not a true FP web folder.

--
==============================================
Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
==============================================
If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
a Service Pack or security update, please contact
Microsoft Product Support Services:
http://support.microsoft.com
If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
==============================================

Steve,
Just a follow-up.

When I wrote that desktop.ini was not present in certain folders, it
didn't show when "Show hidden files" was unchecked in Folder Options, but
a search of the folders under My Webs found it. Strange!!

By copying fpdbw.ico and setting up desktop.ini to refer to it, I got the
icons on the folders.

So all is well ))
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

The structure is
My Documents
My Webs
myweb
index.html
......... many other *.html ......
Martin
desktop.ini
index.html
myweb is the folder which has a globe but no desktop.ini
Martin is the "other" folder which has no globe but has deskop.ini
Contents of desktop.ini are:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=_vti_pvt/fpdbw.ico
IconIndex=0
ConfirmFileOp=0
InfoTip=Stores your local web site

Folder Martin and Martin\index.html were not created in FP, but is
that relevant to Windows Exploerer ?

P.S. I ran Control Panel > TweakUI > Rebuild Icons.

Yes, I do like to tinker which is why this diversion interests me. I
have had success in getting the blue globe to appear before.
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.
Website: http://tandcl.homemail.com.au

Steve Easton wrote:
Funny

I have some folders which have the blue globe and when hovering over
it the tooltip states "Stores your local web site". But there is no
file "desktop.ini". (I have "Show hidden files" active.)

Are the "folders" the root folders for front page webs??


On another folder, I copied the code into "desktop.ini". This file
appears, but the blue globe doesn't, nor does the tooltip

What kind of other folder??

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
..............................with a computer