You have not moved to Vista yet or some program stole your drive icons {Notably, geek-fav Vista Transformation Pack is so stupid that if you uninstall the Software, it does not even bother to restore the default icons} and you are stuck with no icons for your C:, D: and other drives. There is a quick and dirty way to change the icon: To change the icon displayed within explorer for a drive requires changes to the windows registry.
- Create (if it does not already exist) the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Explorer\ DriveIcons\ X\ DefaultIcon
where 'X' is the drive letter of the drive for which you wish to change the drive icon.
- Change the key's default value to hold the fully qualified name of the icon file (e.g. 'd:\ions\cdrive.ico').
If the file contains more than one icon then follow it with a comma and the zero-based index of the icon (e.g. 'd:\cons\mylib.dll,2').
- To see the affect restart windows - although, depending on the version of windows simply refreshing the window might be sufficient.
From Windows 2000 onwards it is also possible to change the default label shown for each drive.
- Navigate to (or create):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion \Explorer\ DriveIcons\ X\ DefaultLabel
where 'X' is the drive letter of the drive for which you wish to change the label.
- Change the key's default value to hold the required label.
The icon displayed for a cd (or zip) drive is normally taken from the media that it holds. To specify the icon that should be used:
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Copy the icon file (IconName.ico) to the root directory (i.e. the top directory) of the cd. (Any name will do, but it must be an icon file and have a ‘.ico’ file extension.)
- Create the file ‘
AUTORUN.INF’ in the root of the drive, it should contain:
[autorun]
icon = IconName.ico
- The change will be visible the next time cd is placed into a drive.
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