23 January 2008

How To Change The Drive Icon And Drive Label For Windows XP/2000

1. Click Start > Click Run > type “regedit” to run Registry Editor
2. Find following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Microsoft / Windows / CurrentVersion / Explorer
3. Create a new Key and name “DriveIcons”
4. Under DriveIcons create a new Key with the drive letter ( for example C ),
within drive letter create a new key and name “DefaultIcon”.
5. Give the default value , the icon you want to use, for example
c:\windows\system 32/shell32.dll,74(If you have ".ico" icon packs,you can give the direction to that folder.Use '/' then 'icon name'

To change Drive Label:
Do step one and two

Under DriveIcons create a new Key with the drive letter ( for example C ), within drive letter create a new key and name “DefaultLabel”.
Give the Default Value, the label you want. For example Windows.

Close Registry Editor and reboot your Computer
Note: editing the registry may damage your system. Please create a restore points before any changes.
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