To those who get bothered by reviews that note when a software seems overpriced, we try to review all aspects of software given away here. Developers bring their products here not just to get the word out but also to get feedback.

I just had to reinstall an OS on a computer and lost tons of giveaways. Some I will consider purchasing but if the price was too high, I won't replace that one. I lost the last three days of giveaways due to a much need system restore.

There is a reason the price is pointed out in the description of each giveaway so don't pretend the price is irrelevant. Sometimes you make more money by selling more because the price is right. I believe this is a good example especially considering there are freeware alternatives and some operating systems have this feature built in.

Tex  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+142)

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It installs easily. Afterwards you just right click on any folder and you should see the 'Change Icon' in the context menu. If you do not see an immediate change (which I didn't) just refresh the desktop or whatever main folder the folder is located in.
For $20 it should have more changeable options though.
A nice freeware alternative is Folder Marker:
http://www.foldermarker.com/folder-marker-free.php

Tex  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+137)

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to #3 MrBub: comments and feedback are not the same as complaining. Not necessarily, anyway.

I think one thing the people who give us these freebies really want, is feedback about their product, and people's reactions to their products.

Scott  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+86)

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Thanks a million to #1, who recommended the freeware version of Folder Marker. I've just installed both products on my Windows XP SP3 box and I've done a side-by-side comparison.

FolderIco is a decent product which installed quickly and easily, and is very easy to use. So is Folder Marker Free. And that's about as positive as it gets for FolderIco. Basically this is all about eye candy and personal utility i.e. total subjectivity! So that's the only basis on which I can review FolderIco.

Firstly, FolderIco has a less attractive and less polished, professional-looking Windows XP context menu interface than Folder Marker Free. The colour context menu icons which FolderIco uses are rather crude, and don't look like the final result after application.

FolderIco offers 13 Everyday icons and 12 Work icons as well as 12 colours.

With the exception of the 'Downloads' icon, the 13 Everyday icons are, to me, unattractive, poorly designed, and have no obvious value. Why offer '1 Star', '2 Stars' etc up to '5 Stars'? Nothing that's worth less than 3 stars lasts long on my PC! Why offer 'Webcam', 'Bittorrent', 'USB', 'Printer' and 'Microphone' icons but no music, art, games, book or tech-related icons? Once applied to your folders, some of the Everyday icons look blurry when the parent folder is viewed in Tiles mode. That's downright sloppy for a commercial product. In fact, it's ridiculous.

The only one of the 12 Work icons I like (from 'High Priority', 'Normal Priority' 'Approved', Pending', 'Rejected, etc) is the 'Internet files' icon, which features a nice blue globe. The rest of them are ok, and at least they don't look blurry in Tiles mode, but they're not very attractive or useful to me. I've downloaded far more exciting icons from free icon sites, and now I can apply them quickly and easily using Folder Marker Free.

Folder Marker Free offers a similarly uninspired set of work-related icons, but they're at least clean and sharp, and more importantly, Folder Marker Free offers the option to set up a dozen of your own icons for fast application to your folders.

For the same price as FolderIco, there is a Folder Marker Pro version which offers considerably more icons and options.

TeoreX really need to raise their game. There's a much better freeware alternative to FolderIco, which has a vastly better pro version at the same price as FolderIco. I really have no motivation to keep today's giveaway of FolderIco installed.

That was an amusing little diversion. Thanks for the interesting giveaway, GOTD and TeoreX.

Julia  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+44)

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There are a variety of these programs available -- some freeware -- that all do what this one does.

This works fine but it's more limited than other payware because it only changes the color and not the style. That's not all that important but folder MaRker Free does the same thing and is always free.

BTW, #9 got the name wrong. It isn't foldermaker.com it is http://www.foldermaRker.com

u  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+22)

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