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.