How to Change New Icon time period in SharePoint

In this article I am describing about how to change the time period that a new Icon is displayed while you upload or add new item in SharePoint list.

You may be also thought "How long an item does really stays new?". Usually many people ask these questions because they have uploaded/migrated a bunch of documents from their file share which are not really "new", but they get the !New tag assigned to them anyway.

This feature applies to not only Document Libraries, but also to other Lists such as Tasks, Issues, Contacts, and Links etc. In the default installation of SharePoint, the "New" tag gets appended to every new item in SharePoint lists and remains there for one calendar day. We have two options here, but make sure we have access to the SharePoint Server.

1. Increase the number of days that icon should appear
2. Eliminate the appearance of the icon altogether

We can use stsadm tool to accomplish this task

Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\BIN



The "setproperty" command will be used for this task as follows:

stsadm.exe –o setproperty –pn days-to-show-new-icon –pv (number of days) –url (Url of the Web application)

I am using the above command to prevent the new tag from appearing