Change a Drive Icon

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Mike

I am trying to find out how to change a drive icon in Win
2000 Pro. Can anyone tell me how to do this? I have added
a card reader & would like something besides the Windows
default. Thanks, Mike.
 
Mike:

The manufacturer would have to provide this like SanDisk does. A program is loaded in the
Registry and based upon the hardware type which has a distinctive property (CF, SmartMedia,
etc) the program will then choose and load an associated ICO file.

What is the make and model of your memory card reader ?

Dave



| I am trying to find out how to change a drive icon in Win
| 2000 Pro. Can anyone tell me how to do this? I have added
| a card reader & would like something besides the Windows
| default. Thanks, Mike.
 
Mike wrote
I am trying to find out how to change a drive icon in Win
2000 Pro. Can anyone tell me how to do this? I have added
a card reader & would like something besides the Windows
default. Thanks, Mike.
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example of what David H. Lipman is refering to--
my cd.reg file I used for my ZIP, CDR & CDRW drives:

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\E]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\E\DefaultIcon]
@="D:\\MyStuff\\ZIPDR.ICO,0"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\E\DefaultLabel]
@="Iomega Zip 100"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\F]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\F\DefaultIcon]
@="%SystemRoot%\\system32\\SHELL32.dll,11"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\F\DefaultLabel]
@="Sony"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\G]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\G\DefaultIcon]
@="%SystemRoot%\\system32\\SHELL32.dll,11"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\DriveIcons\G\DefaultLabel]
@="Plextor"
 
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