Any way to Bold Folder Names?

[Art Todesco]

I am using W7. I would like to make a folder name or even a file name,
bold.
Is there a way to do this?

 

[JJ]

I am using W7. I would like to make a folder name or even a file name,
bold.
Is there a way to do this?

No settings for that. The only way to achieve that, would be to write your
own shell extension, an add-on for Windows Explorer. But it'll likely to
slow down file browsing significantly. And I've never come accross such
add-on.

 

[choro]

I am using W7. I would like to make a folder name or even a file name,
bold.
Is there a way to do this?

Presumably you want to make it stand out. Don't know whether you can
make file or folder names bold but one way of making a folder stand out
is R/Click folder> Properties> Customize> Change Icon where you can
choose an appropriate icon. Apply and OK and your folder will now have
its very own icon that will stand out amongst the crowd.

As for files, You can start a file name with an Underscore etc which
will also make it stand out. For example you can start all your porno
files with a treble XXX. ;-) I bet you anything you as well as others
will long remember this salient advice.

For example, if you are experimenting and know in advance that you will
want to delete a particular file, start naming it with DEL_ or some such
like filename. This would make it easy peasy to find and delete at a
future date.

That will be a fiver payable into my bank account. Advice on such simple
tricks of the trade do not come free, you know!

 

[Ballpoint]

Not quite waht you asked for, but perhaps this will help...

Folder Marker
http://www.foldermarker.com/download-ok-free.php

Ballpoint.

 

[VanguardLH]

Presumably you want to make it stand out. Don't know whether you can
make file or folder names bold but one way of making a folder stand
out is R/Click folder> Properties> Customize> Change Icon where you
can choose an appropriate icon. Apply and OK and your folder will now
have its very own icon that will stand out amongst the crowd.

A really simple and old scheme is to simply uppercase the entire
folder's name. "DOWNLOADS" stands out better than "downloads". Works
in DOS [shell] and in a GUI (e.g., Windows Explorer).

As for files, You can start a file name with an Underscore etc which
will also make it stand out. For example you can start all your porno
files with a treble XXX. ;-) I bet you anything you as well as others
will long remember this salient advice.

Putting an underscore characer as the first character of a folder name
moves it to the top of the folders list (which is usually sorted).
Works in DOS [shell] and in a GUI (i.e., Windows Explorer).

"_DOWNLOADS" would not only be "bolded" by using all uppercase but also
at the top of the folders list. Any prepended character with an ASCII
value below 64 dec (40 hex) could be used. For example, maybe you want
a group of folders to appear at the top of the list, followed by another
group, and so on. Prepend "0" (zero) to the folder names of the first
group, "1" to the folders in the second group, and so on. You can do
the same to order subgroups within a group, like "00" for the first
subgroup in the "0" group, "01" for the second subgroup, and so on.

00-group0.child0.folder
01-group0.child1.folder
10-group1.child0.folder
11-group1.child1.folder
20-GROUP2.CHILD0.FOLDER (bolded)
21-GROUP2.CHILD1.FOLDER (bolded)
30-group3.child0.folder
....

That will be a fiver payable into my bank account. Advice on such
simple tricks of the trade do not come free, you know!

Transfer a fiver from your account to my account. Enhancements on the
tricks of the trade aren't free, either, you know.

 

[VanguardLH]

...


Not quite waht you asked for, but perhaps this will help...

Folder Marker http://www. foldermarker. com/download-ok-free.php

Rather than point at downloads for a product, point at the product
description. Let the user choose to read the product before getting
stuck with a download of it.

Folder Marker versions:
http://www.foldermarker.com/folder-marker-free.php (free)
http://www.foldermarker.com/folder-marker-home.php ($25)
http://www.foldermarker.com/folder-marker-pro.php ($35)

Comparison of free/home/pro versions:
http://www.foldermarker.com/compare-versions.php

For what the OP asked for, this product does not address his inquiry.
It does not bold the folder's *name* (shown in Windows Explorer). It
changes the *icon* displayed for a folder (shown in Windows Explorer).

This product makes easier a feature already available within Windows:
change a folder's icon. In Windows Explorer, right-click on a folder,
select Properties, go to Customize tab, and change the folder icon. If
you cannot find a desirable icon in any file (shell32.dll, progman.exe,
moricons.dll, or any other file that has icons), there are .ico library
freebies you can find and download.

No added software is required to change the icons of folders. The
feature is already available within Windows Explorer without having to
install a folder shell extension. This product simply makes it easier
to change the icons and gives you a ready library of icons from which
you can choose (you can add, too). This product adds itself as a shell
extension (to Windows Explorer). After installation, look in the
registry for the FMMenuExt subkey at:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Obviously folder icons are meaningless in a DOS shell (command prompt)
where they are not displayed. They only have use within a GUI app that
shows the folder icons.

 

[Art Todesco]

I am using W7. I would like to make a folder name or even a file name,
bold.
Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for all the replies. "Folder Marker" might do the trick. I've
tried putting the folder name in all caps, however, with the
fonts/sizes/etc. which I am using, it really didn't help. I do like the
idea of naming with some characters that will force it to the top or
bottom of the list. I'll be trying them ... again, thanks.

 

[choro]

Presumably you want to make it stand out. Don't know whether you can
make file or folder names bold but one way of making a folder stand
out is R/Click folder> Properties> Customize> Change Icon where you
can choose an appropriate icon. Apply and OK and your folder will now
have its very own icon that will stand out amongst the crowd.

A really simple and old scheme is to simply uppercase the entire
folder's name. "DOWNLOADS" stands out better than "downloads". Works
in DOS [shell] and in a GUI (e.g., Windows Explorer).

As for files, You can start a file name with an Underscore etc which
will also make it stand out. For example you can start all your porno
files with a treble XXX. ;-) I bet you anything you as well as others
will long remember this salient advice.

Putting an underscore characer as the first character of a folder name
moves it to the top of the folders list (which is usually sorted).
Works in DOS [shell] and in a GUI (i.e., Windows Explorer).

"_DOWNLOADS" would not only be "bolded" by using all uppercase but also
at the top of the folders list. Any prepended character with an ASCII
value below 64 dec (40 hex) could be used. For example, maybe you want
a group of folders to appear at the top of the list, followed by another
group, and so on. Prepend "0" (zero) to the folder names of the first
group, "1" to the folders in the second group, and so on. You can do
the same to order subgroups within a group, like "00" for the first
subgroup in the "0" group, "01" for the second subgroup, and so on.

00-group0.child0.folder
01-group0.child1.folder
10-group1.child0.folder
11-group1.child1.folder
20-GROUP2.CHILD0.FOLDER (bolded)
21-GROUP2.CHILD1.FOLDER (bolded)
30-group3.child0.folder
...

That will be a fiver payable into my bank account. Advice on such
simple tricks of the trade do not come free, you know!

Transfer a fiver from your account to my account. Enhancements on the
tricks of the trade aren't free, either, you know.

Hey, but your idea will be all messed up when you list files and folders
by anything other than by name while mine will WORK whatever you do to
mess things up. It is visual. For example I've got all my downloads
going to a Transit Downloads Folder which has got a big red tick mark
from where I move them periodically to the relevant folders. The square
white arrow on a green background could be used for the more important
or frequently used folders etc etc. There are quite a few icons
available to make your folders stand out.

So I am afraid it is YOU who should be paying me for this excellent tip!

Fact is there are any number of ways such things can be done. Yours is
one way which I already use and been using it for quite some time.
Patent rights applied for a long time ago. So therefore royalties are
again due to your truly. --
choro
*****

 

[VanguardLH]

Art Todesco wrote:

I am using W7. I would like to make a folder name or even a file
name, bold. Is there a way to do this?

Presumably you want to make it stand out. Don't know whether you can
make file or folder names bold but one way of making a folder stand
out is R/Click folder> Properties> Customize> Change Icon where you
can choose an appropriate icon. Apply and OK and your folder will now
have its very own icon that will stand out amongst the crowd.

A really simple and old scheme is to simply uppercase the entire
folder's name. "DOWNLOADS" stands out better than "downloads". Works
in DOS [shell] and in a GUI (e.g., Windows Explorer).

As for files, You can start a file name with an Underscore etc which
will also make it stand out. For example you can start all your porno
files with a treble XXX. ;-) I bet you anything you as well as others
will long remember this salient advice.

Putting an underscore characer as the first character of a folder name
moves it to the top of the folders list (which is usually sorted).
Works in DOS [shell] and in a GUI (i.e., Windows Explorer).

"_DOWNLOADS" would not only be "bolded" by using all uppercase but also
at the top of the folders list. Any prepended character with an ASCII
value below 64 dec (40 hex) could be used. For example, maybe you want
a group of folders to appear at the top of the list, followed by another
group, and so on. Prepend "0" (zero) to the folder names of the first
group, "1" to the folders in the second group, and so on. You can do
the same to order subgroups within a group, like "00" for the first
subgroup in the "0" group, "01" for the second subgroup, and so on.

00-group0.child0.folder
01-group0.child1.folder
10-group1.child0.folder
11-group1.child1.folder
20-GROUP2.CHILD0.FOLDER (bolded)
21-GROUP2.CHILD1.FOLDER (bolded)
30-group3.child0.folder
...

That will be a fiver payable into my bank account. Advice on such
simple tricks of the trade do not come free, you know!

Transfer a fiver from your account to my account. Enhancements on the
tricks of the trade aren't free, either, you know.

Hey, but your idea will be all messed up when you list files and folders
by anything other than by name while mine will WORK whatever you do to
mess things up. It is visual. For example I've got all my downloads
going to a Transit Downloads Folder which has got a big red tick mark
from where I move them periodically to the relevant folders. The square
white arrow on a green background could be used for the more important
or frequently used folders etc etc. There are quite a few icons
available to make your folders stand out.

So I am afraid it is YOU who should be paying me for this excellent tip!

Fact is there are any number of ways such things can be done. Yours is
one way which I already use and been using it for quite some time.
Patent rights applied for a long time ago. So therefore royalties are
again due to your truly. --
choro
*****

How is a folder icon going to display when you load a command prompt
(DOS shell) and run 'dir' or use other console-mode commands to look at
folders? Or when you run batch files (that run in a DOS shell)? What
if the GUI apps used to list folders don't show the folder icons, like
TreeSize Free? What if the user either directly or through a tweaker
configures Windows to NOT use custom folder icons? What if you load a
different OS using, say, a bootable CD, like BartPE, WinPE, or a Linux
distro to look at the folders on the hard disk?

Folder icons aren't reliable since they are not always displayed.
They're only reliable if customized folder icons haven't been disabled
and if you always use a GUI app that will display those folder icons.
That's severely limiting as to when you will see the folder icons.

I've been using the uppercase "bolding" and sorting tricks on other
operating systems before Gates and Allen ever even licensed Seattle's
86-DOS (renamed to MS-DOS) to IBM. I've been using these tricks since
working on 1100/80 mainframes sometime around '76 at Sperry Rand (before
they dropped Rand in '78 when they divested the Remington Rand divisions
and then merged in '86 with Burroughs and came up with the awful Unisys
name). Before that I was using these ancient tricks back on IBM S/360.
Patents rights apply long before "Microsoft" was even a blip on the
radar when MS-DOS showed up in '82. Are you old enough to remember
Heathkit home-built kit computers (and I'm talking soldering resistors,
chips, and PCB etching, not just slapping and cabling assemblies
together like today) and running CP/M? I can't really remember at which
point in an OS that I got to first use lowercase filenames but I suspect
back when I was punching tape on a teletype or punch cards that only
uppercase was allowed back then. Yeah, I'm an old fart.

So the payment goes to me.

 

[Fire Marshal Bill]

I am using W7. I would like to make a folder name or even a file name,
bold.
Is there a way to do this?

Best and easiest way is:

Right-click your desktop
Click in Personalize
Click in Window Color
Click in Advances Appearance Settings
In the Item drop-down, select an item for which you want to change the appearance. For example, you could select "Icon" and then change its font type, size and style (bold/italic).

No need for any third-party software!! Much too simple!