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The Properties dialog box for a folder offers a bunch of tabs:

General, Security. Here you find the same sorts of checkboxes
and options as you do for data files, described already.

Sharing makes the folder susceptible to invasion by other people
—either in person, when they sign into this PC, or from across

your office network (see Chapter 19).

Location. This tab appears only for folders you’ve included in a
library, which can show folders from anywhere. It identifies where

the folder really sits.

Customize. The first drop-down menu here lets you apply a folder

template to any folder: General items, Documents, Pictures, Music,
or Videos. A template is nothing more than a canned layout with a
predesigned set of Ribbon tabs, icon sizes, column headings, and

so on.

You may already have noticed that your Pictures library displays a
nice big thumbnail icon for each of your photos, and that your

Music library presents a tidy Details-view list of all your songs,
with Ribbon buttons like “Play all,” “Play To,” and “Add to
playlist.” Here’s your chance to apply those same expertly

designed templates to folders of your own making.

This dialog box also lets you change the icon for a folder, as
described in the next section.

Program files

There’s not much here you can change yourself, but you certainly get a lot
to look at. For starters, there are the General and Details tabs described
already. But you may also find an important Compatibility tab, which may

one day come to save your bacon. It lets you trick a pre–Windows 10
program into running on Microsoft’s latest.

Changing Your Icon Pictures