How to change the background of Windows Explorer Toolbar

How to change the background of Windows Explorer Toolbar?

If you want to put an image on the background of Toolbar of the Windows Explorer. You can use this tip. Make any BMP File you want to display in the background of Windows Explorer Toolbar.

Run the Registry Editor using Start->Run and then type "regedit" and Enter. You will come up with a windows with title Registry Editor. You will see that something like this.

Here is a view of Registry editor. On the left pane we have a tree view with some items. These are actually the roots of different types of keys. We are going to to discuss only two of them which are needed by us. The remaining will wait for another time.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER holds the information about the currently logged on user.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE holds the information about the whole computer.

And set this key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar

and create a new key named

BackBitmap or BackBitmaShell. Set it's data to the location of your BMP File you selected fot the background. Like the picture given below.

Now close all explorer windows if any one is open. and then reopen one. You will see the effect.

NOTE: Modifying the registry is dangerous. If you make any mistake you may corrupt your registry. This may cause your system to crash or become unstable.

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