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Wednesday 1 February 2012

Change Drive Icons In Windows 7 / Vista

1. Create a folder in any drive and named it as "HardDriveIcons"
2. Copy the downloaded or created icons to this folder(All icons should be 256x256 in size with .ico extension)
3. Open Regedit4. Navigate to  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes
5. Find the "Applications" key(if that key does not exist, create it by right clicking on "Classes", then "New", then "Key", name it as "Applications", then hit Enter)
6. Under "Applications" expand "Explorer.exe", then "Drives" (if neither of those sub-keys exist, create "Explorer.exe" by right clicking "Applications", then "New", then "Key", name it, then hit Enter. Create "Drives" by right clicking "Explorer.exe", then "New", then "Key", name it as "Drives", then hit Enter)
7. Under "Drives" create new keys for each drive using the drive letter as the name, then under each drive, create a new sub-key and name it "DefaultIcon")
8. Click on DeafultIcon key for the specified Drive folder  and in the right pane  right click on Default, then click on "Modify", then in the "Value Data" box, enter the location of your hard drive icon,
(Eg:  D:/HardDriveIcons/Hicon1.ico)
9. Exit and check the Hard Drive Icons and Enjoy...