Can I change icon for Recent Documents?

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 by aimzzz | Discussion: OS Customization

Recent Documents (if activated) is located on the Start menu at the top of the Places section. The icon for Recent Documents does not change when Icon Packager applies an IP. If I right click Recent Documents, there is no context menu. I can't locate it in Windows.

Does anybody know where Recent Documents lives or how to change the icon. This feature can be disabled, but I find it useful at times & would rather keep it-- I just want it skinned...
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Bichur
Reply #1 Tuesday, December 13, 2005 11:37 PM
bear with me, i was surprised it worked so i may screw this up:

C:\Documents and Settings\Owner - right click on recent documents folder and choose properties - make sure it's not hidden - then customize tab, change icon. After changing it, it stayed the same in the start panel until I opened WB configure and just clicked apply changes, then close. went back to start and voila.

aimzzz
Reply #2 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:25 AM
Do you mean the folder named Recent? I don't see a Recent Documents folder. I unhid everything, including the "protected system files"

I do see a folder under Administrator called My Recent Documents-- will try that one...

Bichur
Reply #3 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:43 AM
if you go to C:\Documents and Settings\ do you have a folder for you? Mine's labled 'owner'

inside 'owner' i have a 'recent documents' folder - it was washed out until i right clicked on it and went to properties, then under attributes unchecked hidden. then i went to the customize tab to change the icon.

i'll post a shot in a min

Bichur
Reply #4 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:52 AM

aimzzz
Reply #5 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:59 AM
Mine has that folder only under the Administrator folder in C:\Documents and Settings\
I changed the icon in that one, but I don't think it affects me as the user. There's a separate folder under C:\Documents and Settings\ with my name insetad of Owner. It does not have My Recent Documents for some reason.

Bichur
Reply #6 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:00 AM
are you using 2 accounts?
do you have recent docs enabled for the start panel in the account with your name?

Drunken River Rat
Reply #7 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:03 AM
Recent document is a hidden file. firstly you have to open explorer go to tools folder options and then click on the view tab and tick show hidden files and folders and click ok. The you will find your recent folder in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Recent. Username is your name.

Bichur
Reply #8 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:09 AM


I've had show hidden on for so long I forgot about it. Thanks Drunken River Rat.

aimzzz
Reply #9 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:12 AM
I already have it ticked. I'm going to try inactivating it & then reactivate it to see if it will jog it a little.

aimzzz
Reply #10 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:14 AM
Actually it's a radio button. I switched it back to hidden & am going to switch back to unhide to see if it wakes it up or something...(doubt it)

aimzzz
Reply #11 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:19 AM
Nah-- I wonder if I changed something that made it reside somewhere else. I set lots of my temp files to be on partitions other than my C drive. Maybe I redirected it

Bichur
Reply #12 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:23 AM
could be maybe

Drunken River Rat
Reply #13 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:28 AM
The folder you are looking for is called recent, it is called My Recent Documents in the start menu. Well it is on mine and i'm using xp pro sp2.

aimzzz
Reply #14 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:30 AM
There is a folder called Recent-- will change the icon for it to see what happens

aimzzz
Reply #15 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:37 AM
Whoa! Recent does it. I didn't think it was that folder because the contents don't look like the items on the Recent Docs list-- Oh well

Thanks River Rat-- that icon bugged me for a long time. Finally I quit noticing it, & then somebody mentioned it yesterday & it started bugging me all over again!

aimzzz
Reply #16 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:38 AM
Strange that it's called My Recent Documents under Administrator, but just Recent under my username.

aimzzz
Reply #17 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:41 AM
Looks great now


Thanks Drunken River Rat & Bichur!!!

Bichur
Reply #18 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:03 AM

aimzzz
Reply #19 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:51 PM
LOL-- I DL'd Icon Packager 3.1 today. It skins the Recent Docs icon-- changes it to the IP's default folder icon...

Bichur
Reply #20 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:58 PM

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