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Saturday, 2 July 2011

Changing Default Icons Of Drives In Windows XP

  1. Open Registry Editor by clicking on Run from Start Menu and typing Regedit in the dialog box that appears and clicking on OK.
  2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/DriveIcons
  3. Make a new Key under it and rename it to the name of the drive whose icon you want to change. e.g. C, D, E, etc.
  4. Make a new Key under this Key which you made and rename it to DefaultIcon.
  5. Change the (Default) REG_SZ value in DefaultIcon you made to the address of the icon which you want as the drive's default icon.
  6. Refresh by pressing F5.
  7. See your own icon in your drives now.  

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