Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Change the icon of C drive in My computer

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.

The picture you want to use should have .ico extension.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.

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.

Now go to My Computer. Suppose you want to put this icon in place of your original C: image. Enter C drive, paste your .ico image file in the drive. And also create one text file and type the following lines.
[autorun]
ICON=favicon.ico

Remember the favicon.ico in the second line is the name of your image file. If you have image file with abc.ico then replace the favicon.ico with abc.ico.

Rename this text file as ' autorun.inf ' (without the quotes).

Now restart your Pc.You are done. Check out the cool new picture in your My computer.



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