How to Set a background image of Windows XP folders ?

To change the background image of folder XP,

• First you can create the Desktop.ini file the folder of which you want to change the background.

Follow the following steps:

• Right click on folder, select customize. Change Icon. You do this only to trigger the creation of a desktop.ini.
• You don't have to make the desktop.ini hidden, system, or Read Only. It just has to be there in the proper format/syntax.
• Open the desktop.ini and edit the image path and text color.
• Delete the following code from the desktop.ini file

                                  [.ShellClassInfo]
                                  IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
                                  IconIndex=(some number)

• Now type the following code

                         [ExtShellFolderViews]
                        {BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}=
                        {BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}

                        [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
                         IconArea_Image=C:\My Folder Background.jpg

• Edit the last line of code (IconArea_Image=C:\My documents\My picture\abc.jpg) to the path of your picture, save the file and close it. Refresh your folder and it should have the new background.