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

To hide computer drives to protect data using Registry.

It shows how to hide drives to protect against unauthorized access using Registry.

Keywords: Registry, Drives, Hard disk, Drive.

Steps to Hide computer Drive.

Step 1: click on Start button then type Regedit in Run option.

 

Step 2: Then locate : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion \Policies\Explorer

Step 3: Right click on the right side panel to create a new DWORD value with name NoDrive(Case sensitive)

Step 4: Then open the file and modify the value to 3FFFFFF (if we want to hide all drive)

Step 5: For hide certain Drive use the following Values.

A             -              1

B             -              2

C             -              4

D             -              8

E              -              16

F              -              32

G             -              64

H             -              128 and goes like that

Step 7: If we want to hide C Drive, modify the value to 4.

Step 8: Now restart your system for the changes to take place.

(imp: To restore changes that made, just delete or change the value of the file)

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