Cool trick to make your USB jump drive have it's own icon

[eyeRmonkey]

I have a 300 gig external hard drive. Whenever I connect it, the icon for the drive automatically changes to the logo of the manufacturer (Western Digital). This has always happened with lots of CDs that I used, but I never made the connection that you it could be done with other drives. I also realized that the same thing could be done with your jump drive or any other drive for that matter.

Here is what you do.

1) Set you folder options so you can see hidden files and folders. You can change this back afterwards if you want.

Window's Explorer > Tools > Folder Options... > Show Hidden Files and Folders

2) Make a new folder in the base folder of the jump drive (IE - G:\New Folder\)

3) Put the icon you want to use in the hidden folder you just made.

4) Make a file called autorun.inf that contains this:

[autorun]
ICON=Path of folder you just made\icon file name.ICO

5) Set the new folder and file to be hidden.

Right-click on folder/file > Properties > Hidden

I uploaded the files I used to test this. Just unzip it, make them hidden (if you want) and put them in the base folder for your jump drive.

[crptcblade]

Kabul now refuses to be your sister city.

[k1ll3rdr4g0n]

Thats sweet! Ima sell that concept to dell for x thousands of dollars!

[thegreatone]

Yep, we actually use a trick like this in college with autorun... hehe.

Not letting on, but lets just say some strange hai 2 you website pops up.

[wossname]

It's a good substitute for a boot sector.

[iPrank]

Have you tried this trick ?

[visualAd]

Have you tried this trick ?

Are you related to the iPod?

[iPrank]

No. I'm related to iLaugh.

[Merri]

Hehe, I made a program that did this already in 1998 for any drive I think I don't have the source anymore...

[umilmi81]

This didn't work for my Jump Drive (Flash Drive). But after some investigation I was pointed to this download from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

It's a USB manager that allows you to change a jump drive's properties to enable autorun and even creates the autorun file for you.

Thought I'd update the thread with this info since it's a page one result on google

[wossname]

I remember doing things like this in windows 2.0.

[Valleysboy1978]

Now you're showing you're age wossy

[BodwadUK]

Thats cool