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Maybe boring stuff, and familiar to a lot of you. However if you happen to have a lot of drives, or use many removable drives which change drive letters when they're plugged back in, this trick can be useful to find them quickly as well as looking cool on your desktop.
I was always getting confused which IcyBox external drive was which, so I added descriptive icons for each which show up when the drive is plugged in. Same goes for the list of 'removable' drives which are actually card slots for SD and CompactFlash. Finding the icon is easier and quicker than reading the volume name, and the result looks like this:
To do this you just need to add a text file to the root of the drive called AUTORUN.INF containing two lines of text, e.g.:
[autorun]
ICON=AUTORUN\eos.ico
Which simply points to where the icon is stored. I store the icon(s) in a folder called AUTORUN.
The icons have particular properties, 46x45 pixels (W x H), 32-bit. I use IconWorkshop to make new ones, but you can edit exisitng ones in Paint.
Anyway, it's a bit of fun that might be useful to you.
I was always getting confused which IcyBox external drive was which, so I added descriptive icons for each which show up when the drive is plugged in. Same goes for the list of 'removable' drives which are actually card slots for SD and CompactFlash. Finding the icon is easier and quicker than reading the volume name, and the result looks like this:
To do this you just need to add a text file to the root of the drive called AUTORUN.INF containing two lines of text, e.g.:
[autorun]
ICON=AUTORUN\eos.ico
Which simply points to where the icon is stored. I store the icon(s) in a folder called AUTORUN.
The icons have particular properties, 46x45 pixels (W x H), 32-bit. I use IconWorkshop to make new ones, but you can edit exisitng ones in Paint.
Anyway, it's a bit of fun that might be useful to you.
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Nah, DVD backups and recodes