Change the icons of Drives
Change the icons of Drives
All the Xp users would have
been bored by the boring
icons in their My Computer
panel which are adjacent to
the Hard disk drives(C:,D: or
whatever drive letter you
have). Here is a simple
tweak by which you will be
able to change this
monotonous icon to
anything you like,even your
own Picture if you wish
You can put any image in
place of one which I have
shown,even the picture of
your favourite celebrity or
your dream caror your
own Picture. Here are the
steps you need to follow:
1.First of all the picture you
want to use should
have .ico extension(if you
already have a pic with .ico
extension proceed to step 2)
.Most of the pictures we
normally use have
extensions
like .jpg,.bmp,.png..gif etc,
so you first need to convert
them to one with .ico
extension.This is simple.Just
go here and put your
original image in the
‘Source Image ’section,then
click on ‘Generate
Favicon.ico ‘ button to get
your image with .ico
extension. 2.Now go to My
Computer.Suppose you
want to put this icon in
place of your original C:
image. Double click and
enter C: .Paste your .ico
image file in it.Also create a
new text file and in it type
the following lines:
[autorun] ICON=favicon.ico
Remember that ‘favicon.ico’
in the second line is the
name of your image file.If
you have an image file
with .ico extension by the
name of ‘abc.ico’,then use
that in the second line in
place of ‘favicon.ico’. 3.Now
rename this text file as ‘
autorun.inf ‘ (without the
quotes). Important
Note:How do I rename my
text file as autorun.inf ?
Ans.Go to Tools->Folder
options.Under the View tab
uncheck the ‘Hide
extensions for known file
types’.Press apply.Now
rename your text file as
‘autorun.inf’. 4.Now restart
your Pc.You are
done.Check out the cool
new picture you have just
added in your My
computer panel
Monday 27 June 2011
