I've just discovered the Labels and Status options.
With the Status, are they supposed to be permanently displayed when applied? When I add a status, they are removed when I leave the folder and then return to it.
Is it possible to add more labels colours in the future? Say 20!
You can assign each label to a Category, and then edit the toolbars/menus to display each category as a separate list.
This is actually how the Labels and Status Icons menus work already. They're really all labels, with the Status Icons in a separate category which is shown in one menu and filtered out of the other menu.
You could use a Label Filter for that. They can be created via Preferences / Favorites and Recent / Label Assignments.
I've assigned a label to a specific file path and for the file name I entered .exe but it didn't work.
I should of mentioned that I want this done automatically.
Path labels target specific files/paths, and aren't what you want.
For all exe files everywhere, you'd want a wildcard label, which is created in the same place, and set the wildcard to *.exe
For exe files only in specific folders, you'd wand a label filter, also created in the same place, which uses rules to say only *.exe files and only when their locations are under a specific folder. Or it could use a wildcard on the Full Path, if that's easier.
(There's also the option of using a simple *.exe wildcard filter, and saving the label into the folder's Folder Format instead of globally, which is a bit more efficient. I use that to highlight *.exe files in and below my downloads folder.)
One last thing. I now have the labels in a folder and sub folder but I still have the original labels in the main context menu. How do I remove them without mucking up the folders I just created?
That is a single entry Properties SETLABEL that shows all without menus. Find and delete it and you should be ok. Or, if you want to keep the colors, adjust it like the other items.