Customized Icons for Drives

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Bored of your plain and uninterestingly looking icons of your drive? How can you make a private by just looking at it. Well, one of the ways is to give the drives your name. Another way is to give it a customized icon, or even your photo. Now, how is that possible? Here is easy tweak that will take you through the process of placing these icons for your drive. This same tweak will work for Flash drives, and Disks. Here are the steps you need to follow.

1. Choose any image and convert it into an “ICO” file.
2. Download this new “ICO” file and place it in the drive you want to assign this image to.
3. Now, open notepad, and type the following commands
   

   
   [autorun]
   ICON=filename.ico

4. Save this file as autorun.inf, and make this file and image as hidden.
5. You can hide this file by going into properties, and then selecting the Hidden box.
6. Reboot your computer and you will see the new icons into effect.

Thats it, Wasn’t it simple? It was. Do try this, and i am sure you will find a new PC

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