China DOS Union

Under XP
we can use
rd md..\
and similar commands to create all kinds of malformed folders
but we can't use the right-click "Customize Folder" function to assign some other custom icon to them
My idea was to first create a normal directory asdf
then change the custom icon
and finally rename the folder
but I don't know why
when I use
ren asdf md..\
the command won't work
the result is that the folder gets renamed to the md folder

Could an expert please explain why this is?
Also, is there any way to make a custom icon work for a malformed directory?

No.

Desktop.ini
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=27

Create a similar INI file like this; it seems the icon can be changed after a reboot
Just change a normal folder and look at how the INI file changes, that should do it

1. Create folder a, assign an icon
2. Copy folder a, rename it to b
3. ren b "a../"

You also have to use attrib +s to add the system attribute to the directory...

But this kind of directory seems to be ineffective

[ Last edited by zh159 on 2009-6-30 at 18:52 ]

The methods from 3L and 4L are both useless for changing the icon of folders ending with a dot

...\ much smarter than a..\, you can't even see it try md ...\

F:\BAK\DOS>md ...\

F:\BAK\DOS>rd ...\




This is a batch file to search the whole disk for ...\ folders
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
title made in 2009-4-11
set strLine=----------------------------------------
:FolderFlag
cls&set hideFolder=0&set hideFolder=0&set driveList=
echo.&echo !strLine! [...malformed folder capture]&echo.
for /f "delims=\" %%i in ('fsutil fsinfo drives^|find /v ""') do (
set var=%%i
set drive=!var:~-2!
fsutil fsinfo drivetype !drive!|find "固定">nul && set driveList=!driveList! !drive!)
for %%i in (!driveList!) do (
if exist %%i\...\nul set /a hideFolder+=1&echo [!hideFolder!]. %%i\...\&set ctrlHideFolder!hideFolder!=%%i\...\&echo.
for /f "delims=" %%j in ('dir /ad /b /s %%i\') do (
if exist %%j\*..\nul set /a hideFolder+=1&echo [!hideFolder!]. %%j\*..\&set ctrlHideFolder!hideFolder!=%%j\*..\&echo.
if exist %%j\...\nul set /a hideFolder+=1&echo [!hideFolder!]. %%j\...\&set ctrlHideFolder!hideFolder!=%%j\...\&echo.))

if not !hideFolder! equ 0 (
echo !strLine! [ F? - view X - exit ]&echo.
set cFolder=&set /p cFolder= Please choose:
for /l %%i in (1,1,!hideFolder!) do if /i "!cFolder!"=="f%%i" start "" "!ctrlHideFolder%%i!"
if /i "!cFolder!"=="x" exit
) else echo [...-type malformed folders found on local disks]&echo.&echo !strLine! [!date! !time! ]&echo.&pause>nul
goto FolderFlag

md ...\ can't be used on the NTFS file system