Card Reader Icons

rctneil · 17 Dec 2009 at 21:42

Hey,
I have a card reader in my desktop pc with multiple slots and I always get confused as to which of the 4 drives that appear in My Computer, I ahev inserted the card into. The 4 drives are:

1: Compact Flash
2: Smart Meadia, XD
3: Memory Stick/Pro
4: SD, MMC

Does anyone know of a small collection of icons (.ico) that I can assign to each of the 4 drives to indicate to me which is which?

I know some laptops come with icons such as this assigned to the SD drive?

PhillyDee · 17 Dec 2009 at 22:55

The icons are part of the drivers that may come with the card reader. I would love to know how to set them myself! It drives my mad since I have 4 on here myself. If you do find out, let us know! I have looked in the past and come up blank.

rctneil · 17 Dec 2009 at 22:59

I was intending to right click on drive > Properties > Customise

and then choose an icon?

marc2003 · 17 Dec 2009 at 23:18

2 ways of tackling this....

open notepad

Code:

[autorun]
icon=icon.ico

save the file as "autorun.inf" to the root of your memory card along with the ico file. now that will show up on any computer you plug it into.

or you can set the default icon for any device by editing the registry. virtual clone drive does this. you can just copy how it does it. note the full path in the status bar and recreate this structure using the "new>key" options.

MarcLister · 18 Dec 2009 at 12:25

marc2003 said:
2 ways of tackling this....

open notepad

Code:

[autorun] icon=icon.ico

save the file as "autorun.inf" to the root of your memory card along with the ico file. now that will show up on any computer you plug it into.

That's what I'd do. Did that with an Android icon for my HTC Magic. Makes it a lot easier to spot it in Windows Explorer. Have been planning to extend this idea to my disks.

marc2003 · 18 Dec 2009 at 17:58

MarcLister said:
Have been planning to extend this idea to my disks.

i've been sad enough to make an icon for my usb stick.

(my icons aren't normally this large. they're usually tiled.)

mrk · 18 Dec 2009 at 18:12

Windows Device Central also downloads icons for your hardware, which is nice

MarcLister · 18 Dec 2009 at 18:20

mrk said:
Windows Device Central also downloads icons for your hardware, which is nice

What's that and how/where do I get it?

mrk · 18 Dec 2009 at 18:20

I tried the autorun.inf method on my Android and while Autorun shows the icon in My Computer and Device Central it has the standard removable drive icon:

Hmmmm

Marc, in Start menu click Devices and Printers

rctneil · 18 Dec 2009 at 18:22

Start > Devices

MarcLister · 18 Dec 2009 at 18:50

mrk said:
I tried the autorun.inf method on my Android and while Autorun shows the icon in My Computer and Device Central it has the standard removable drive icon:

Hmmmm

Mine works fine.

mrk said:
Marc, in Start menu click Devices and Printers

Nice one, thanks.

rctneil said:
Start > Devices

Ta.

marc2003 · 18 Dec 2009 at 18:59

mrk, have you unplugged it and then plugged it in again? you need to do this after copying over the files.

mrk · 18 Dec 2009 at 19:02

¬_¬ That solved it -_-

rctneil · 18 Dec 2009 at 22:50

I have found some high res photos of some storage devices I use and wish to use them as icons. How can I turn them in to an .ico file?

MarcLister · 18 Dec 2009 at 22:58

rctneil said:
I have found some high res photos of some storage devices I use and wish to use them as icons. How can I turn them in to an .ico file?

IrfanView

rctneil · 18 Dec 2009 at 23:00

Ah cool, I didn;t realise that Irfanview can do that. Trying it now

rctneil · 18 Dec 2009 at 23:05

Using irfanview, I only get a very small outputted icon. Any idea how I can get a full size 256 by 256 icon?

marc2003 · 18 Dec 2009 at 23:20

i use icofx - http://icofx.ro/

mrk · 19 Dec 2009 at 01:11

Photoshop has a plugin which simply adds .ico open/save as - very easy, very free.

marc2003 · 19 Dec 2009 at 02:57

mrk said:
very easy, very free.

photoshop? very free? sure it is....