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Drive Icon Hack

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[NotD] Super Senshi Korori:
This is very simple. Basically this allows you to change the icon for your disk drive to what ever you want. As long as its 128 by 128 and must be an ico file.


Method 1 Using Text editor and Saving as a .Reg file
All you have to do is copy this into a text editor and make a few changes.


--- Code: ---Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\Explorer.exe]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\Explorer.exe\Drives]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\Explorer.exe\Drives\C]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\Explorer.exe\Drives\C\DefaultIcon]
@="\"C:\\icons\\oshiyokiyo.ico\""

--- End code ---

Alright basically what this does is looks for an icon on c: icons and named oshiyokiyo (I will punish you) and sets it to the C: drive.

To change the drive just look at the last to entries.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\Explorer.exe\Drives\C]
and

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\Explorer.exe\Drives\C\DefaultIcon]

change the highlighted items

to the drive you wish to change.

Then you need to find an ico. If you only have a jpg or png you can click HERE to convert them.

then save it to a place where everyone has read only/full access to it.
change @="\"C:\\icons\\oshiyokiyo.ico\"" to the location. make sure you have \\ in the paths. Another example

@="\"D:\\korori\hacks\icons\\tutorial.ico\""

There you go.

Method 2 Using RegEdit

(Note this is for advance users, missing with the registry with out knowing what you are doing may mess up system items/linking)
Launch the registry editor.
Navigate to \\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer.
Make a new key named "DriveIcons".
In "DriveIcons", make a subkey named after your drive letter without the colon (say, "F").
In “F”, make a subkey named "DefaultIcon".
Change the default value of "DefaultIcon" to the path of the icon file, e.g., “d:\icons\tutorial.ico”.


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