How to Customize Drive icons Without Softwares In Windows

In this trick i will show you how to change the drive icons that appear in My computer.

I Have Two Method Of Changing Drives icon. I Like The Registry Tweak Method. Let Me Describe You Both The Methods.Works on Windows XP, Vista, 7 & 8.



First Method:
For this you need an icon image i.e.; with extension "ICO" example "drivea.ico"
Copy the icon file to the root of the drive.
example: c:\drivea.ico
Then create a file called: autorun.inf in the root directory c:\autorun.inf.
Simply Right click->New->Text Document. Rename it to autorun.inf (.inf is Extension)
Next open that file and type the following:
[autorun]
icon=drivea.ico
Save and close the file.
Now open my computer and refresh.. and woh! icon changed....
you can apply to other drives too.

Note: "autorun.inf" and "ico.ico" must be in the root of the drive.
example: c:\autorun.inf and c:\drivea.ico.
same on the root.

Second Method:
The Another Method For Changing Drive Icon Is RegEdit Tweak.
For This You Have To make Some Changes In RegEdit. The Whole Process Is Describe as Below:
Goto START - RUN - Regedit 
Goto -- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Right Click on Explorer and Add New Key Named " DriveIcons" without Quotes.
Now Make A New Key In DriveIcons Names Your drive Letter Ex. "C","D","E" etc.
Make another Key in It And Give Name "DefaultIcon"
In DefaultIcon Goto Rightpane and Double Click on The File String Value 
Now Give The Full Path Of Your Icon File In It .
Its Done !!!!!!
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