Saturday, November 29, 2008

Free the Internet - November 28, 2008 - 4th Ed.




Welcome to the November 28, 2008 edition of free the internet.

Welcome to the 4th, November 28, 2008, edition of the Free the Internet Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 65. Published Articles - 32. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Twitter Jitters posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

Andy presents Do search engines like your Web site? posted at Personal Plug, saying, "Between 75% and 98.8% of visitors to Web sites come from searches made at search engines. If you’re going to get high levels of traffic - and hence the levels of ROI you’re looking for - it’s very important that the search engines can access all the information on your Web site."

Brian Terry presents 4 Great Ways to Explode Your Article Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, "The idea of building your online business via article marketing has been around for ages. Even before the Internet it was used by publishers to get free content from contributors in exchange of free advertising."

Andy presents Tip On Writing A Feature Article - For Online Success! posted at Personal Plug, saying, "The No.1 challenge of all marketers is getting targeted traffic and targeted paid traffic is rarely cheap. You all know that Adwords costs are skyrocketing these days just like oil prices and it is getting harder to make money using PPC."

Wayne John presents 10 Cool Create an Avatar Web Sites posted at Wayne John, saying, "What web site are these people visiting to create these cartoon styled avatars? I found a mess of them, and tried each one out. If you are looking for a new look on the web, this is a great starting point."

Andy presents Top 5 Tips On Designing An Seo Friendly Website posted at Personal Plug, saying, "Getting high rankings in major search engines is essential for maximizing your visibility online and growing traffic to your small business website. More and more small businesses are realizing that the best way to reach prospective customers is through search engines like Google."

Brian Terry presents Traffic vs. Sales Conversions - Which Is Better? posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, "This is a question I get time and time again, “how do I generate more traffic to my website?”. The problem is and it’s what most people miss out on is it’s not just about the traffic."

Sarah Scrafford presents 100 Free Open Courseware Classes About Open Source Everything posted at BSchool.com Business Schools Directory.

Patricia Turner presents Top 50 Free Online Dating Sites to Find a Date (or Soulmate) posted at 50 Best Dating Websites.

Brian Terry presents 5 Red Hot Tips To Effective Forum Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, "You’re NOT allowed to advertise or market directly through your forum posts, this is seen as spamming the forums. It’s a “surefire” way to get banned from ever posting to them again. Here’s the secret to highly effective forum marketing…"

Wayne John presents One Simple Method to Keep Visitors on Your Site posted at Wayne John, saying, "One method I use to help keep visitors on my site is by creating my hyperlinks so they open a new window when they are clicked."

Margaret Garcia presents Top 20 iPhone Apps for Entrepreneurs posted at Web Design Schools Guide.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Life-Saving, Spam-Fighting WordPress Plugin posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.

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Sarah Scrafford presents 50 Best Social Networks for Seniors posted at Zarabianie na blogach.

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Jimson Lee presents Need Support or Help Desk for Gmail? Slim and None posted at CRM Help Desk Software.com, saying, "This article takes a look at the Free Google Apps and Gmail, and the options for support."

Fiona King presents Hack Your Work Day: 100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps for Productivity posted at Career Overview.

Jimson Lee presents Zoho Mail vs. My Ultimate Email System - Google Apps, Gmail IMAP, Outlook, and Blackberry posted at CRM Help Desk Software.com, saying, "How I use Google Apps, Gmail IMAP, Outlook, and Blackberry as my my Ultimate Email System. All free (except Outlook)"

Free Information Services


free cloaking script presents The procedure entry point apsGetInterfaceCount could not be located in the dynamic link library wlanapi.dll posted at Glowicki ProBlogger - Blogging Tips, saying, "The procedure entry point apsGetInterfaceCount could not be located in the dynamic link library wlanapi.dll The procedure entry point apsInitialize could not be located in the dynamic link library wlanapi.dll Fix the issue after Service Pack 3 install!"

Free Multimedia Services


Chris Satchwell presents How NOT To Get Fired Because Of YouTube - 9 Incognito Tips! posted at Digitpedia Tech Blog, saying, "This is a blog post about the guy who got sacked because of a drunken YouTube video, the post includes 9 incognito tips so the same doesn’t happen to you!"

http://www.panisphere.com/google-apps-growing-popularity-on-corporate-world presents Google Apps Growing Popularity on Corporate World posted at PaniSphere, saying, "Google Apps which is a collection of software is becoming more popular among businesses due to its relatively cheap price compared to other software provided by key players including Microsoft and SAP."

Free Productivity Services


Mert Erkal presents Most Useful Free Google Marketing Tools for Bloggers | Make Money With Blogs! - Search For Blogging posted at http://www.searchforblogging.com/, saying, "You may find the most useful free Google Marketing tools in this post."

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Wakish presents Free Resale-Rights E-Books | Wakish Wonderz posted at Wakish Wonderz.

Sheryl Schuff presents Jazz Up Your Communications posted at Small Business Startup Success Club.

Fiona King presents 50 Tips for An Awesome Google Chrome Experience posted at The Daily Netizen.

Erika Collin presents 100 Fun & Useful Search Engines for Writers posted at LearningXL.

Heather Johnson presents 100 Amazing Web Tools for Hobbyist Scholars posted at LearningXL.

Sarah Scrafford presents Healthy Paranoia: Top 50 Internet Security Blogs posted at The Daily Netizen.

Fiona King presents Top 100 Networks for People Who Want to Change the World posted at LearningXL.

Heather Johnson presents Are You a Genius? 50 Intelligence Tests to See Where You Stand posted at eLearning Gurus.

Fiona Veitch Smith presents Dofollow Search Tool is online posted at Hippo Web Solutions, saying, "Want free backlinks to your site? Use this Dofollow Search Tool to find blogs that reward commenters with real search-engine-friendly links that’ll boost your own PageRank."

Patricia Turner presents Online University Reviews: Top 20 iPhone Games You’ve Never Heard Of posted at Online University Reviews.

Sarah Scrafford presents Top 50 Internet & Digital Law Blogs posted at e-Justice Blog.

Fiona King presents 100 Best Open Source Security Tools posted at Masters in Criminal Justice.

Fiona King presents 50 Awesome Semantic Apps for Educators posted at MatchACollege.com.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of free the internet using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Computer performance optimization with Process Scanner

You got a new computer and you are happy of its speed and performance. However, over time, you notice that the performance declines. The system takes long time to boot up and to load software you are planning to use. Computer is freezing and occasionally crashing. That does not mean that you need to buy a new one yet. You just need to perform preventive maintenance to optimize its performance.

Note that your computer might be running unneeded or even potentially dangerous code, compromising all areas of the PC performance. You need to understand in details what is going on, but how can you distinguish between the vital drivers of Operating system and processes that should be removed? Removal of the basic OS utility might cause irreversible damages.

Free utility Process Scanner will guide you on the processes running on your computer. Actually, the list of the processes you can get from the built-in system administration utility, but the difference is that Process Scanner will provide valuable information about what each process does and the level of risk, or threat, to your computer associated with that process.


Utility is absolutely free to use and can be downloaded from the link.

http://www.ziddu.com/download/2769212/processscanner.exe.html

If you do not like installing the software on your PC, but you still need professional guidance on the suspicious running processes, you can check manually one-by-one from the software developers’ website: http://www.processlibrary.com/.

PC Magazine has named Uniblue’s ProcessLibrary.com in the list of top websites for 2007, so I would recommend bookmark the site for the further references. Or, just download the Process Scanner software and let the utility check the entire workplace automatically.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

4 Ways to Hide Hard Drive on your PC

This trick can be used for mere entertainment, when you prepare nice computer prank on your friends or colleagues, but it also might be quite useful from practical security purposes, especially, when you share your computer with other people.

The question we address is “How to Hide Hard Drive on your Computer?”

We will provide several options on how to do so to satisfy need of all readers of this blog:

1. With HDHide freeware

Hide Drives Hide (HDHide) can be use to hide or unhide drive letters A: - Z: on any computer using Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP operating systems - whether they are actual physical drives on a local machine or logical drives (partitions, server volumes, mapped drives, etc.). Any of these drives can be hidden or unhidden.

The hidden drive letters will not be visible in Explorer or any other application that use the common Windows ’Save’, ’Save As’, or ’Open’ dialog boxes.

The software is small, easy to use, and completely portable (does not need to be installed on your PC), so if you want a simple and straightforward solution, this method will fit your needs perfectly.

Direct downloading Link. http://www.ziddu.com/download/2741816/hdhide.zip.html

Screen:


2. With TweakUI freeware

TweakUI is a part of the Microsoft PowerToys utilities, and can do much more than just hiding hard drives. It gives you access to system settings that are not exposed in the Windows XP default user interface, including mouse settings, Explorer settings, taskbar settings, and more.

After installing, go to Start > Programs > PowerToys for Windows XP > TweakUI. Expand ’My Computer’, click on ’Drives’, then uncheck the drives you wish to hide.

Direct downloading link. http://www.ziddu.com/download/2741877/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe.html


3. With built-in Diskpart utility

This way does not require from you installing or using any additional software to do the job, since you can achieve the same result easily using nothing more than the Command Prompt.

Here’s how:

- Click Start -> Run (This brings up the Run dialog box)
- Type cmd and press Enter (This brings up the Windows Command Prompt)
- Type diskpart in the command prompt and press Enter (This launches the Diskpart utility within the Command Prompt window)
- Now type list volume (This displays a list of all mounted volumes on your computer and their associated drive letters):


- Using the above picture as reference, if, for example, you would like to hide drive E, type select volume 6
- Now type remove letter E (Note: This action requires a computer reboot).

Diskpart will now remove the drive letter. The drive will no longer be available via Windows Explorer or My Computer.

Now, should you want to unhide the drive and make it accessible again, just repeat the above process. But instead of typing remove letter E, type assign letter E

4. By registry modification.

- Open Registry Go to Run command, type "regedit" (without quotes) and press enter.

- Registry page will open, now go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER’Software’Microsoft’Windows’CurrentVersion’Policies’Explorer

- Now right click in right side pane and create DWORD Value. Call the new registry value as "NoDrives". Double click on "NoDrives" to enter a Decimal value. This value depends on the drives you wish to hide, and is created by adding the numbers for each drive you wish to hide from the list below. Click OK once you have entered this number.

For example, to hide drive D you would enter a decimal value of 8. To hide both drives D and E, you would enter a decimal value of 24 (8+16).

Values for each drive per its letter:

A = 1
B = 2
C = 4
D = 8
E = 16
F = 32
G = 64
H = 128
I = 256
J = 512
K = 1024
L = 2048
M = 4096
N = 8192
O = 16384
P = 32768
Q = 65536
R = 131072
S = 262144
T = 524288
U = 1048576
V = 2097152
W = 4194304
X = 8388608
Y =16777216
Z = 33554432
All drives = 67108863

Once you restart your computer, the selected drives should be hidden. If you wish to remove the hidden drives, browse to the NoDrives registry value and delete it.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Music Fans are Getting Revenue Share from MusicNerds.com

Music Nerds features track-by-track reviews, or "guides", for thousands of music albums. It is by and for people who love music and feel strongly about certain artists, albums, and individual songs.

This site is quite different from other similar review sites because, where most sites have a general overview of an album (with occasional note on few specific songs), Music Nerds gives each track its full due, offering a more complete feel of an album.

The guides are written by the site contributors, and you can be one of them. Anyone who is passionate on the chosen album, knows it well, and can write about each track on it, is welcome to submit a guide.

As sign of appreciation for your impact in the community, and to compensate you for contributing valuable content, you will be paid each time, when a web visitor clicks an affiliate link and either makes a purchase or signs up (depending on the advertiser). So, Music Nerds is a revenue-sharing site. Payments are made monthly via PayPal. The minimum payment is USD$15; if you have less than that it will be carried over to the next month.

While the site grows, writers are also receiving a percentage of the Google AdSense earnings, and a full 100% of the revenues generated by the page(s) that feature their writing.

Also, during this time, members are getting paid when someone makes a purchase through an as-yet-unclaimed, unwritten album page as well. On each page view, a contributor is chosen at random and his or her affiliate code is automatically embedded into the commercial links.

Choice and acceptance of advertisers is based on how useful their products or services are (all services are legal, as all illegal downloading or torrenting is not accepted).

How to get started
1. Find an album you want to write a guide for, and if nobody else has yet, claim it. After claiming, you’ll have 7 days to submit your guide. (At first, you can claim only one album at a time; after you’ve had one accepted and published, you’ll be able to claim five albums at one time.)

2. Write your intuitive, engrossing track-by-track guide. All guides must be written especially for Music Nerds; no copying from other pre-published sources, even if you wrote it.

3. Go to the album page, click "Submit guide", and copy and paste your review. You can preview everything before publishing, and edit it until a Music Nerds editor gets a hold of it. After it’s been published, it isn’t editable.

Developers Website: http://www.music-nerds.com/

Monday, November 17, 2008

Hidden Features of Notepad

Notepad is a brain child of Bill Gates of Microsoft
 and is the cornerstone of Windows Architecture.
Developed by the Gate himself,
it took him fifteen years to write a new GUI...


Notepad is plain simple tool, which can be easily replaced by a wide range of free text utilities. But it has its own advantages:

* It is a commodity - it is installed by default in any computer and any Windows Operating System.
* It is portable, small, fast, and does not use much of computer resources.
* It is so simple, that sometimes it is the only tool you need to open small text files.

To my surprise, even Notepad has its hidden secrets. Today, we’ll discuss two of them.

Making Notes With Notepad

This is real cool for people who use notepad to write down any info on a day to day basis.
* Create a blank text file with .LOG (in caps) as the first line of the file, followed by a carriage return (Enter) and save this file.
* Double-click the file to open it and notice that Notepad appends the current date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor on the line after.
* Type your notes and then save and close the file.
Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process, appending the time and date to the end of the file and placing the cursor below it!

Creating Hidden Text Files

This is an interesting trick to hide the files with no third-party software in three easy steps.
* Launch Windows command prompt from Start Menu -> Run -> Type cmd and press Enter.
* Using DOS commands navigate to the desired folder.
* Now type in notepad VisibleFile.txt:HiddenFile.txt and hit Enter, you can change VisibleFile.txt and HiddenFile.txt to names of your choice (notice the sign “:” between both file-names). You will be prompted to Create a New file click Yes as shown below.

Note, that this little "trick" requires NTFS partition. It’s a feature in NTFS that was designed primarily for compatibility with other operating systems, such as Apple’s HFS.

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Healing the Disk with Freeware Disk Heal

Disk Heal is a free multi-function tool, assisting in Hard Drive related troubleshooting and maintenance issues. Hard Drives, like people, are getting thick, and can be healed if the problem taken care of before it is too late. For example, this application will be able to treat problems generated due to the virus infection or due to the software incompatibility crashes. But before you experience any problems, periodic preventive maintenance will assist you keeping your “friend” in the best possible shape.

Many other tweaks, offered by the utilities, can be performed in different way, but the program give a great visibility and convenience to perform customization of your Operating System.

Main features:

  • Fixes Disk Problems:
Can’t open your drive just by clicking it? Getting error messages like "Can not find …" or an Open With … dialog? Disk Heal fixes these problems in just one click

  • Fixes Task Manager inaccessibility
  • Fixes Folder Options inaccessibility
  • Fixes Registry Editor inaccessibility
Can’t access any of the above three features, Disk Heal fixes this problem
  • Fixes File/Folder inaccessibility:
Has a virus hidden your files/folders and you cannot unhide it, use disk heal to fix this problem.
  • Perform Tweaks:
Performs various other tweaks to optimize your pc including:
  • Security Tweaks:
-Password protect these features
-Enable/Disable Task Manager
-Enable/Disable Folder options
-Enable/Disable the registry editor
-Lock the location of ’My Documents’
-Enable/Disable Display Properties
-Enable/Disable ’Search’
-Enable/Disable ’Run’
-Enable/Disable Control Panel
-Enable/Disable Shutdown
-Enable/Disable CPU Beep
-Enable/Disable CD Auto-run
-Hide/unhide Start->(All) Programs menu
-Enable/Disable the Context menu in My Computer &
  • Desktop
-Enable/Disable My Computer
-Hide/Show ’Pinned’ items from the Start menu
-Remove ’Manage’ in My Computer Context Menu

  • Appearance Tweaks:
-Change drive icon
-Enable/Disable Clear
-Type (Also known as ’Font smoothing’ Fonts)
-Enable/Disable smooth scrolling
-Hide/Show the left panel from My Computer
-Hide/Show the current user in the Start menu
-Hide/Show the windows version on the Desktop
-Hide/Show windows error messages on startup

  • Internet Explorer Tweaks:
-Enable/Disable Auto-complete
-Check if Default Browser
-Lock current home page
-Increase simultaneous downloads to 10

  • Control Panel Tweaks
-Hide’Show Accessibility Options
-Hide’Show Add’Remove programs
-Hide’Show Console Options
-Hide’Show Date’Time Options
-Hide’Show Display Options
-Hide’Show Fax Options
-Hide’Show Hardware Wizard
-Hide’Show IR Port Options
-Hide’Show Regional Options
-Hide’Show Internet Settings
-Hide’Show Joystick Options
-Hide’Show licensing programs
-Hide’Show Keyboard’Mouse Options
-Hide’Show mail Options
-Hide’Show sound Options
-Hide’Show dial-up Options
-Hide’Show network & connectivity Wizard
-Hide’Show modem Options
-Hide’Show Netware client Options
-Hide’Show ODBC options
-Hide’Show PC card Options
-Hide’Show port Options
-Hide’Show power Options
-Hide’Show scanner and camera Options
-Hide’Show server manager Wizard
-Hide’Show speech Options
-Hide’Show System Properties
-Hide’Show Telephone Properties
-Hide’Show TweakUI Properties
-Hide’Show User Manager Properties
-Hide/Show WSP client options!
-Hide/Show Quicktime preferences!
-Hide/show Norton Live update client!
-Hide/Show Compaq Agent!

Developer Website: http://www.luqsoft.com/diskheal/

Direct downloading link.
http://www.ziddu.com/download/2658041/DiskHealSetupv1.48.exe.html

Screenshots:
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

MySpace Birthday Comments Submitter

If you are deep in the Social Networking, if the famous Social Portal MySpace is your virtual home, if you have multiple virtual friends, and you want them to remember you with warm feelings, if you need more traffic for better visibility and profile monetization, if you want to save your time, while not loosing your grip on the MySpace community, this free software is for you.

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MySpace Automatic Birthday Comments Submitter will automatically send MySpace birthday comments to your virtual friends according to the upcoming birthdays listing. This is the best way to say "Happy Birthday" to your large friend list on MySpace without spending hours on this task. Increase your MySpace profile’s visibility and keep your friends coming back.

Features:

  • Automatically Sends Comments to all your friends that have upcoming birthdays.
  • Sends both Text and HTML Formatted Comments.
  • Use on an unlimited number of MySpace profiles.
  • Smart Feature will send each profile a single comment only by logging the prior comments.
  • MySpace captcha bypass skips user generated comment captcha.
  • Plays tone when MySpace generated captcha needs to be entered.
  • Option to set limit to number of birthday comments sent.
  • Free upgrades and support from developer.
Note: If you receive an unexpected error after launching the software for the first time it means you do not have the .NET framework installed. Download: MicroSoft .Net Framework.

Developers Website
http://www.friendtrainadder.com/automated-software/myspace-friends/myspace-birthday-commenter.html.

Direct Downloading Link
 http://www.ziddu.com/download/2635123/birthdaycommenter.exe.html.

Friday, November 7, 2008

Create Passive AdSense Income Giving Away Free Software

Google AdSense context advertising program is so successful and profitable that the new earning schemes are appearing on the daily basis. Social networking, music and video sharing, and even free freeware distribution. The sites developers are ready to share with you the advertising revenues in exchange to driving traffic to their site or creating new content. It is a “win-win” situation. Hosting site is getting money, you are earning your fair share of AdSense profits, and your readers and subscribers are provided with the information they are looking for.

In this publication we’ll present not very common type of the content site, which might be a great success as addition to your AdSense profit making Empire. Give away free software and make passive income from interested visitors.

DirectDownloadCenter.com is a free software download portal. There, you can download any Freeware and Shareware utilities directly from publisher. The system has been setup to share 100% AdSense revenue to all contributing members from all traffic that they sent to the site. Check that for yourselves. It is quite easy and painless to use DirectDownloadCenter.com to earn advertising revenue. There are two ways in doing that:

1. Link to any page of DirectDownloadCenter.com using referrer code, provided to you. Traffic sent from your link will display Google Ads using your AdSense ID for 90% of the time. The referral link you post on your site will look like that:

Free Download 50000+ Freeware Shareware NOW.

2. Refer your friends to be new affiliates and get your ads displayed on the traffic links they send for 10% of the time. Just link to any pages using your referrer code and wait for his/her registration.

It is a fair play, and you have nothing to loose - publish or share software with your friends and start getting money too. Welcome to the club!

Make Money With Adsense Without Your Website. Apply now!

The portal carries respected rating 4 of 5 in the RateItAll list of the 32 Top Freeware Directories on the Web: http://www.rateitall.com/t-24284-top-freeware-directories.aspx

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Legal Downloading of Copyrighted Books

I like reading books, old-fashion paper books, flipping pages and using paper bookmarks. However, there are multiple cases, when ebooks are much more convenient and usable. You can store many compact text files on your notebook or mobile phone, and you are ready for travel. No need to carry heavy literature in your luggage, books are always with you, wherever you go and whenever you feel like reading: in public transportation, on boring meeting, or in traffic jam.

You can find many websites offering downloading the books, but vast majority of these cannot be considered as using legal procedures, offering you these files. While now the prosecution of ebooks copyright violation is not severe, it might come in the nearest future. At this point, comes to play website Wowio. Wowio lets you legally read online, or even download copyrighted ebooks from leading publishers for free (mostly, you have to pay per download of the book in PDF format, but the cost is usually less than 1$). These include works of classic literature, variety of college textbooks, comic books, fiction books and more. Books can be downloaded in PDF format and will be associated with your Wowio username.

Video Presentation:



Wowio Demo

Website: http://www.wowio.com/

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Setting Custom Wallpapers for your Folders

You probably aware that there is quite easy to change the Windows background from the default wallpaper to any other texture images, located inside the system folders of your Operating system, or random image you might like (your kids, for example).

But what happens when you open the folders through Windows Explorer you see the yellow folders and only a white background. Do you know that you can change the folder wallpaper as well? And it could be an individual change, so each of your folders might show up with different backgrounds. This post will present you on how you can set wallpapers for your windows folders backgrounds. It works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2000 and 2003.

1. Pick up the "Image" you like to use, and resize it to 815 x 685 - this is to avoid Tiling of the result.
2. Create a temporary folder for experimenting where you will have to create a new file desktop.ini

3. Open new window in your default Notepad text editor, or any other text editor you are regularly using. Even with extremely small Notepad capabilities, for this task, the software will be sufficient.

4. Paste the following code into it: [note: you should replace your image location in the red] [{BE0981 40-A513-11D0-A3 A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image ="C:’[image-location].jpg"
IconArea_Text= 0x00000000

5. Remove the spaces in the first line, change the image path to your desired picture in second line, and change the text color to choose your liking.

These are the commonly used colors for your text: Black - 0x00000000, Pink - 0x00FF99FF, Purple - 0x00FF99FF, Red - 0x00FF0000, White - 0x00FFFFFF. You might need to find more colors codes in Google.

6. Save this notepad file as desktop.ini, in the new folder you created, with file type property as "All Files". You can change also the file property to hidden, if you prefer it out of your way.

7. Register your ini file by "WinKey + Run" type the following "attrib +s "c:’location of your folder" (or Start-Run), where the exact location of the folder should be present. Press OK to finalize your changes.

8. Now Open the folder and see if the changes appear in the folder.

9. To change the wallpaper for your other folders, copy the desktop.ini file and do the necessary changes.

If this procedure is too complicated, or you do not waste your time on following instructions, you can use the software that will do it for you. The software name is Windowpaper XP.

Developers website: http://www.sodabush.com/windowpaper/index.php

Screenshot:

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Sources and additional information.

http://downloads786.blogspot.com/2008/09/set-wallpaper-inside-folder.html
http://techblo.com/2007/06/folder-wallpaper-set-wallpapers-for.html
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-set-your-desired-wallpaper-as-folder-background-image-in-windows/