Change the ICONS and NAMES of your drive partitions
This is the default view of "My Computer".You can see hare the icon of your hard disks. These icons are traditional icons used in Windows XP. In the windows xp there is no direct option to change these boring icons but you can change the name of partition by Right Clicking on icon and choosing the option Rename.
Here I am describing a easy and fun way by which you can change your drive icon and drive name with the help of simple INF file.
Let start.
You need to make two files to change your drives icon.
1. autorun.inf
2. icon.ico
Let create autorun.inf
1. Start a text editor program like as notepad or notepad++
2. Create a new file and write text which is given blew.
[autorun]
icon=icon.ico
open=
label=
According above image write the name of you icon file and and name of your drive. Then save his file with the extension inf.
To do this follow these steps:
- Click at File | Save As
- Write the file name " Autorun.inf"
- In the 'Save as type' box select 'All files'
- Now click on 'save'
- Open your desired image file in PainBrush
- Click on ' File | Save As'
- Write the the file name icon.ico
- In the Save As Type box select 'all files'
- Save the file
- Put the 'icon.ico' and 'autorun.inf' in your desired drive
- Now reboot the computer
When your computer is again booted up, you will find that your icon has been changed.his trick will work in all version of windows and may in Linux.
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