To assign an icon and name of the USB flash drive or external hard drive
Vindovs Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Flash drives manufacturers compete in ingenuity, making his creations ever new forms, using different materials and decorating their bodies strazikami. However, no matter what the original external flash drive you purchased when you connect it to your computer, you will see the same identical removable disk icon, which will mark its operating system. This is easy to fix with the help of simple manipulation, the result of which in addition to purely aesthetic pleasure can bring you some practical and useful. But more on that below.
1. First of all, it is necessary to prepare the picture you want to assign a removable drive, and come up with a name for it. For example, in my home flash drive lying around, which is used exclusively for watching movies on the TV screen. Accordingly, I go to the site http://www.iconspedia.com and pick up where the icon corresponding subjects.
2. Save your favorite picture the root of the connected USB drive. I remind you that it should be an icon with extension .ico.
3. The root partition removable drive create a file named autorun.inf. It is a plain text file, so for its creation and editing, you can use an ordinary notebook.
4. Edit the startup file created. It must contain the following entry:
[Autorun] Icon = icon name. Label = removable drive name
5. Now let us make so that we have created files are not mingled in front of us and there were not accidentally deleted. To do this, open the properties, and set attributes Hidden and Only reading.
In addition to customizing your flash drive, these simple operations can be used to indicate the purity of your stick against viruses. The fact is that when a removable drive infection occurs, as a rule, the file replacement autorun.infAnd you assign the icon will disappear. Thus, if you connect a USB flash drive and saw the standard operating system icon, it may signal the presence of your flash drive virus.