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How to Change Drive Icon in Windows

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If you want to make your “Computer” drives icons other than the windows default icons use the following simple method to change your drive icon in Windows.

 

1. Download your icon file from web. It should be *.ico file.

2. Now open your notepad and type the following code or just copy and paste the code.

                      [autorun]
                      icon=icon_name.ico

  Where “icon_name” should be you icon file name.

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3. Now go to file menu and click on “Save” or simply press “Ctrl+S”.

4. Navigate to your drive which is your target drive then click on save to save the file.

5. Change “Save As Type” to “All files” and “File Name” to “autorun.inf”.

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6. Now copy your downloaded icon file to your target drive.

7. For more batter look you can hide them by go to Properties and apply check on hidden field then save it.

 

In some cases you have to restart your system to take effect.

 

Enjoy your changed icon.


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