re: Question about 'Customize Drive Icons'
Monday, May 5, 2003 at 9:59 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by J.J
(2 messages posted)
Hi Brian,
I do not understand what u mean.
Can u please elaborate more on the creating registries part? Preferably ste-by-step
instructions.
Gee...thanx alot!
On Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 2:47 pm, Brian Henderson wrote:
>The easiest way I have done it is to go into the registry (regedit) and then go
to
>the following
>
>MyComputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
>
>if you have a Key named DriveIcons make to key within that called DefaultIcon and
>another Called DefaultLabel
>
>If you don't have a Key named DriveIcons create on and then for each Drive you want
>to change make just a letter for each C: drive is just C and then add the keys from
>up above.
>
>After you have all the key inside of the DefaultIcon the value for it is the location
>of the icon you want to use. If you want to use one in shell32.dll you will need
>to count the number and then after the path type in the number such as %SystemFolder%\system32\shell32.dll,
>29
>
>If you want to you another Icon, I am using icons that look like OSX drive Icons
>just locate the .ico file and put that in the path. In the DefaultLabel you just
>can type in a decription. Like my CD Burner is labeled TDK Velco 24X Burner, Windows
>XP just listed it as CD Drive. This worked on all my drives except network mapped
>drives that were loaded from a login script.
>
>
>
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