Change or Customize Drive icon of Windows XP

It shows how to change or customize drive icon of windows XP

Keywords: drive, windows, OS.

Steps to change drive icons

Step 1: First you need an icon image, ie, with extension (*.ICO), example: drived.ico

Step 2: Copy the icon image to the appropriate drive,( here taking D: Drive) example: D:\drived.ico

Step 3: Then create an autorun file with an extention (*.INF) example: D:\autorun.inf (Simply right click->New->Text Document. Rename it to autorun.inf (.inf is Extension))

Step 4: Now open the autorun file and type the following:

[autorun]
icon=drivea.ico

Step 5: Now close the file and restart your system for the changes to take place

Note: autorun and icon file must be in the same root drive

List of names that cannot given to folders and files.

List of names that cannot given to folders and files. 

 

1)    CON

2)    PRN

3)    AUX

4)    NUL

5)    LPT1

6)    COM1

7)    Potential Drive Letter – A: to Z:

It’s true, you cannot give these names to folder as well as files, just try now.

if you try to use a reserved name to name a file such as a Notepad or Microsoft Word document you will generally receive an error message similar to the following: