Wednesday 21 January 2015

How To Set Your Photo As Your Pen Drive Icon?

     Here is a trick that is to set your custom icon for your pen drive. Yes you can set your face as icon for your pen drive.    This  can be done by perform some simple modifications in the


autorun file of your pen drive. After you set up the icon, it will show your custom icon instead of the regular windows USB icon wherever it use (as shown in the below figure).

    To perform this, just follow the simple steps.
1.Plug in your drive and open it.
2.In the drive, create a text file and type the below code.
[autorun]
icon="filename.ico"
3.Save it as autorun.inf
4.Then take the image file which you want to set as icon and convert the image to icon file with .ico extension with any image converter.
5.Place the .ico file in the drive.
NOTE: Don’t forget that the file name of the image should be same as the second line of the code which is in autorun.inf file.
6.Then hide both the autorun and icon file by right click and select hidden. (As shown in the figure)
      That’s it. Now remove the drive and plug it again. Now you can see your photo as your drive icon. Don’t forget that it will available as your drive icon until you format the drive. Once you format the drive, it wont longer available. Comment your doubts and troubles.

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