Changing the Drive icon

[POBrien]

Found this nice tip: Changing the Drive icon

Copy the below into a notepad and save as autorun.inf. Place this file in the root of the drive that you want to change the icon for. Right click select install. reboot.
The number at the end of the path represents one of the icons within the SHELL32.DLL file. Try some different numbers for effect. You can also direct the path to pifmgr.dll for some more icons.

[autorun]
ICON=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL,15


enjoy

[Plastic]

I'm not sure what's needed (I guess 98 + IE4/5), but it can be done through the registry too. Just look for, or create

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\explorer\DriveIcons

Underneath this key, create news keys with only the drive letter as their name. Underneath each create another key called "DefaultIcon", and modify the standard value on the right to point to your icon (full path).

This way you can have different icons for multiple floppy/cdrom drives too.