Wednesday, February 6, 2013

How To Change Your Hard Drive Icon

1. Open "Regedit"

Start menu -> "regedit.exe"









or

Wondows key+"R" -> "regedit.exe"















2. Navigate to your hard drive

The location should be:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\Explorer.exe\Drives\{hard drive}\DefaultIcon

For example:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Applications\Explorer.exe\Drives\C\DefaultIcon



If you don't have the subgroups then create them like this

Right click with your mouse -> New -> Key















3. Change the key value

Right click on the key -> modify














Enter the full location of your .ico (icon) file













4. Enjoy



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