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i have a collection of movies on the pc and to watch them you simply go into a movie file and click on the movie you wish to watch,
the thing is i was trying to make it all look a bit more professional, ie having the movie posters to click on rather than clicking on files.
the best i can do is download a picture of the movie and open the properties of a file and have that file display the poster, but this looks small and a bit naff.
is there anyway to make these file icons bigger, or is there a way not to bother with the file icons and just have the movie posters as the icons?

i am using windows xp if that helps.

One thing you could do is use the command prompt to hide the films inside jpgs of movie posters and then choose Filmstrip view in Windows Explorer.

The method to hide the files is as follows: (I don`t know if it would work properly with a movie, just theory)

1. Put your movie posters in the same folder as your movies.
2. Start > Run> type cmd > hit Enter.
3. Use the CD command to navigate to the movie folder.
4. Enter this: copy poster1.jpg /b + movie.avi /b poster1a.jpg (where the file names are the file names you have) then press Enter.
5. Delete the original poster, then back-up and delete, or move, the orignal movie file.
6. To play the file, you`d have to right-click>Open With


As an idea of what people have done with this trick, click here: i29.tinypic.com/oswdir.gif and then drag that image into WinAmp (or whatever, or save then right-click>Open With.).





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This item was edited on Sunday, 27th January 2008, 00:04