I'd
like to change the icon for a hard drive on my system. I know it's
possible, because one of my disks already has a different icon. I must
have done it somehow, but I can't find the tip on how to do that.
Odedd
There
are two ways to create a drive-specific icon. The first step for both
is to determine the full pathname of the file containing the icon you
want, as well as the index of the icon within that file. To view the
icons contained in an EXE or DLL file, right-click any shortcut that
links to a file (as opposed to a system shortcut like My Computer) and
chooseProperties. On the Shortcut tab of the resulting dialog, click the Change Icon button. Click Browseand
select the file whose icons you want to peruse. When you find the one
you want, count off the icons to determine the correct index. Start in
the top left corner with zero and count down each column, then to the
right. For example, icon 12 in C:\ Windows\System32\Shell32.dll is a
picture of a memory chip. Make a note of the full pathname of the file
and the icon index, then click Cancel, and Cancel
again—you don't actually want to change that shortcut's icon. The
Microsoft Windows files moricons.dll and progman.exe, both found in
C:\Windows\System32, also contain numerous icons.
One
technique for assigning a drive-specific icon uses a file named
Autorun.inf in the root directory of that drive. Launch Notepad and
enter [autorun] on the first line. Enter ICON= on the
second line, followed by the full pathname of the icon-holding file, a
comma, and the icon index. It might look like this:
[autorun]
ICON=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL,12
Save
the file as "C:\autorun.inf" (you need the quotes to prevent Notepad
from appending the .txt extension). Now restart the computer. When you
open Windows Explorer, the drive should display its new icon.
The other technique involves editing the Registry. Launch RegEdit from the Start menu's Rundialog and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrenTVersion\Explorer. If a subkey named driveicons is present, open it; if not, right-click in the right-hand pane, select New | Key and name the key driveicons. Under the driveicons key, find or create a subkey named C (or the letter of the drive whose icon you want to change). And under this C key find or create a subkey named DefaultIcon. Double-click the (Default) entry in the right-hand pane and set its value to the full pathname of the icon-holding file, a comma, and the icon index. Again you'll need to restart Windows.
CurrenTVersion\Explorer. If a subkey named driveicons is present, open it; if not, right-click in the right-hand pane, select New | Key and name the key driveicons. Under the driveicons key, find or create a subkey named C (or the letter of the drive whose icon you want to change). And under this C key find or create a subkey named DefaultIcon. Double-click the (Default) entry in the right-hand pane and set its value to the full pathname of the icon-holding file, a comma, and the icon index. Again you'll need to restart Windows.
If
one of these techniques seems not to work for you, try the other. If
you apply both to the same drive, the Autorun.inf file takes precedence.
princy gupta
mmec
