Is There a Program That Can Do This?

[Fidelis K]

I want to assign different icons to different hard drives/partitions/DVD
drives in "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer." Is it possible?

 

[Ayush]

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I want to assign different icons to different hard
drives/partitions/DVD drives in "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer."
Is it possible?

.... Create a new text file in the root of the drive.
.... Name it "Autorun.inf" (Confirm that Extension is inf)
.... Open it in Notepad
.... Enter the following lines :
[Autorun]
Icon=iconfilepath.ico
.... Save it
.... The icon will be changed after a restart (OF windows not My Comp.)

Do this for each drive and change the iconfilepath.ico to the path and
filename of the icon.


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[Ayush]

Replied to [Fidelis K]'s message {REPLY BELOW} :
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I want to assign different icons to different hard
drives/partitions/DVD drives in "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer."
Is it possible?

.... Create a new text file in the root of the drive.
.... Name it "Autorun.inf" (Confirm that Extension is inf)
.... Open it in Notepad
.... Enter the following lines :
[Autorun]
Icon=iconfilepath.ico
.... Save it
.... The icon will be changed after a restart (OF windows not My Comp.)

Do this for each drive and change the iconfilepath.ico to the path and
filename of the icon.


--
Ayush [ Be ''?'' Happy ]

For any query, search - www.Google.com
Want to know about a term - http://en.wikipedia.org
Snip your long urls - http://snipurl.com/
Must have tool for OE - http://snipurl.com/quotefix

 

[Noozer]

I want to assign different icons to different hard drives/partitions/DVD
drives in "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer." Is it possible?

You can modify the registry to give default names and icons for specific
drive letters. I've done this with most of my drives, including mapped
network drives.

The following text (between the SNIPs) placed into a file named
SOMETHING.REG and then imported to the registry will pu the name "Memory
Stick Reader" on drive F:, with the icon "MemoryStick.ico"

- - - - - - - SNIP - - - - - - -
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

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

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\F\DefaultIcon]
@="c:\\Windows\\Icons\\MemoryStick.ico"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\F\DefaultLabel]
@="Memory Stick Reader"
- - - - - - - SNIP - - - - - - -

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi Fidelis,

Yes, this is certainly possible. Please see section "Assigning a Custom Icon
and Label to a Drive Letter" in the following article:

Customizing Icons:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/icon.asp

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


I want to assign different icons to different hard drives/partitions/DVD
drives in "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer." Is it possible?

 

[ByTor]

I want to assign different icons to different hard drives/partitions/DVD
drives in "My Computer" and "Windows Explorer." Is it possible?

Microangelo...........

http://www.microangelo.us/

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Easier than what was posted before:

http://www.virtualplastic.net/scrow/iphile.html

You may have a problem of the icons "sticking" but I believe that something
else is un-do my setup.