How to change drive icons?

           Don’t want the windows default drive icon of local drives (hard drive partitions,say for example: D: Drive), CD drives, or pen drives??? You may change it to your favourite icon. Today’s post is on how to change windows drive icons? This trick works fine on Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8. You just need to follow 5 short and simple steps.

Step 1: Choose an icon

Select the icon you wish to assign to a particular drive. Now copy the icon and paste it that drive (i.e. C:, D:, E:, and so on ).Make sure the icon have .ico file extension only, if it is .png, .bmp or any other image format then this trick won’t work. Rename the icon name with daya.

Step 2: Open Notepad

You can do this by holding Windows key and pressing letter “R”, the Run dialog box appears. Type in the textbox notepad and press Enter key.

 In notepad paste the below code:

[autorun]

icon=daya.ico

Step 3: Save the file as Autorun.inf

After writing those two lines save this notepad with the name autorun.inf.

Step 4: Hide the files

Hide both these files the icon and Autorun.inf, using command prompt so that these files cannot be deleted accidentally.

Suppose you want to hide the following files in D: drive

Follow these steps:

•  Holding Windows key and pressing letter “R”, the Run dialog box appears. Type in the textbox cmd and press Enter key.
• The Command prompt window appears.
•  Navigate to D: drive
• write attrib +s +h Autorun.inf
•  Press Enter
• write attrib +s +h daya.ico
•  Press Enter

                Again if you want to view or modify the files then write Minus (-) in place of + sign.

Step 5: Restart the computer

Now restart the computer, and the drive icon will be changed. I hope this trick helps you.

This trick was how to change windows drive icons? But what if you want to set your own picture as the drive icon?? But remember that you can’t set an image file(.jpg, .png, .jpeg, .gif., etc) as an icon, I have a solution to this. To know how to set picture as a driveicon click here.