It is very difficult to differentiate between two files with the windows icons, all the files look the same. With the use of Folder Icon XP you can apply different icons to any Windows folder icons and some desktop icons.
Now all your folders will look different, you can have separate icons for individual folders. You can even customize them to suit your style. There is a lot of choice and variety to choose from. All the icons are designed carefully as hi-color folder icons for greater image quality. You also get a choice of sizes and 25 image formats to choose from. You can add a password to protect your folders from prying eyes. Also, with this software you can extract icons and save as multi-sizes or single size .ICO files from executables (.EXE, .DLL, .OCX etc) or directly from .ICO files.
With the use of this program, you will gain more than you will lose. You will gain efficiency in work and also be more organized.