Windows 7 - Drive Icon - Change

Brink · 02-23-2010

How to Change a Drive Icon in Windows 7

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Click here to read the entire tutorial

Brink · 12-03-2011

You're most welcome Jenn.

Yeah, unfortunately you would need to manually customize each folder icon that you do not want the default icon/thumbnail preview for.

thomasblake222 · 02-03-2012

thanks brink

Brink · 02-03-2012

You're welcome Thomas.

Boulve · 03-04-2012

thank you so much, this tutorial help me to recover my drive icon
i previously install Harddisk Sentinels and it changed my drive icon to HD sentinel icon, when i uninstalled it my drive icon went blank, i was desperate

thanks so much, you guys rawkkkk!! ^^

Brink · 03-04-2012

You're most welcome Boulve, and welcome to Seven Forums.

mitch678 · 3 Weeks Ago

Thanks for the great tutorial, Brink. I think I am having some issues with my ico file. I downloaded the Porsche.ico file from earlier in this thread and got it to work successfully using the Registry option. However, when I use my ico it doesn't seem to work. I created the file as a png with Fireworks and used png2ico to convert it. It's a 128 x 128 (the same dimensions as the Porsche file).

Here is the file:
Boxcryptor.zip

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Brink · 3 Weeks Ago

Hello Mitch, and welcome to Seven Forums.

The icon is working fine for me, so there must have been a mistake made somewhere along the way. Double check to make sure that you have the icon unblocked and in a location that any user account set to use it has access rights to it.

Which option did you use?

mitch678 · 3 Weeks Ago

I re-created the ico, this time by using iconviewer to extract the ico from a .exe file that uses the same icon. Tried it again and it worked this time. Not sure why I was having trouble with the first file. Maybe a cache issue or something.

Thanks for double-checking! I was using the registry option.

Cheers and keep up the great work!

Mitch

Brink · 3 Weeks Ago

You're welcome Mitch. I'm happy to hear that you got it working.

Windows 7 - Drive Icon - Change

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