Thursday, March 31, 2011

Change the default icon of USB drive !



Do you hate the default icon flash disk ? ,Do you know that you can change the icon of your flash disk to your image or any other images ? , Follow me…


Steps

1 - Click on Start
 
2 - Click on Run

3 - then type this command :
notepad

4 - Then click on OK.

5 – Type this in the blank:
 [autorun]

icon=myicon.ico

label=YourName
  • myicon = Replace them by the name of your icon
  • YourName = Replace it by your name
 
6 - And save it as:
autorun.inf

Make sure that the icon & Autorun files are in the root of your drive.


 Download some icons form iconarchive
Icon will appear when you Re-plugged in the flash disk.
Show me your results!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

great trick thanks

Akeel said...

please could you tell me how to save it in the root of my drive because it says access denied for me!

thanks

GH . Abdou said...

Akeel:
Just save the Autorun file & the icon in the flash disk.
Try to save them in the computer and then move them to Flash disk
enjoy :)

Anonymous said...

dear i did this same but icon name i gave but my icon was jpg file i give the jpg picture name but not the format but is not working.

GH . Abdou said...

Anonymous
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the image must be .ico you need some programs like PhotoFiltre Studio to create icons, or you can download ready icons form iconarchive.com

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