How to Change the Default Icon for Removable Drives

Have you ever gotten bored of the default look of those removable drives in Windows? Here is what looks like now:

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Pretty boring huh? Here is how to spice this up by adding your own custom icon. Here is how you do it.

How to

Open Notepad and type in the following from the image below. make sure to enter your own Label and the file name of the icon you want to display. Then save the file as autorun.inf.

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Copy your newly created autorun.inf and the icon file to your removable drive. If you don’t have an icon but have really cool image fiels follow our tutorial on how to Create an Icons From an Images File with Paint.NET.

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Eject your drive and remove it and reinsert it. Now you should see your new icon instead of the boring old one.

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