If you love music and computers, you probably have a lot of albums stored on your hard drive.

Here’s a cool tip that lets you show the album cover on the folder. The picture below shows some of the Tom Waits albums on my hard drive:

Windows XP has a feature that sometimes automatically puts a thumbnail of the album cover on the folder. In these cases, you don’t have to do anything! However, for some reason, Windows does not create the thumbnail automatically for every album.

To add the thumbnail of the album cover yourself:

1. First, download a jpg of the album cover. (You can do this by searching for the album on Amazon, then right-click on the picture, and save it in the folder containing the songs.)
2. In My Computer, right-click on the folder.
3. Select Properties.
4. Click the Customize tab at the top.



5. Click the Choose Picture button.
6. Select the JPG that you stored in the folder, and click the Open button.
7. Click OK.