At the time we had to connect an external flashdisk or hard drive on computer, the icon will appear typical USB stick as usual. Actually the icon can be changed according to your whises, then your USB stick will look different and more interesting.
To creating custom USB stick icons, you need image file with .ico format. In this tutorial, we will using freeware program as called IcoFX. After install and running this program, put your image to be used as an icon from “File > Open”, don’t forget to choose “Images” at the “Files of type” pulldown menu.
After download and install, running the program. Put your image to be used as an icon through from tab “File > Import Image”. Click Open, give check at “True Colors + Alpha Channel (32-bits)” and mark in 48×48″, then click Ok. You may also edit image such as adding text, effect, image rotation, and others by using IcoFX tools are available.
After done created the icon, save it by clicking on “file > save as”. Next step open the Notepad program to create autorun file icon can be displayed when USB connected to the PC, and write the following command below.
[AutoRun]
icon=filename.ico
Adjust the icon file name that can be used, then click on “file > save as” and give the name file autorun.inf. On “save as type” tab, klik pulldown menu and choose “all files”. Then move your to your USB Stick.
TIPS : In addition to a USB Stick, this trick can also be used in other data storage media such as CD/DVD, just follow the same steps above.You may wanna hidden this files by “right click > properties > check the hiddenbox”. Never put both files into folders, because it will not show results.
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