How to set a picture as a drive icon? ~ Computer Tips & Tricks

Many of you might be knowing How to change drive icons, but what if you want to set your own picture as the drive icon?? But the problem is that you can’t set an image file(.jpg, .png, .jpeg, .gif., etc) as an icon, I have a solution to this. Here I am posting a trick on how to set a picture as a drive icon??

Step 1: Choose a picture

Select the picture you wish to assign as an icon to a particular drive. Now we will usePic2Icon, a free online image to icon converter. Go to Pic2Icon, Upload your picture, by clicking on the upload file button. You can customize the image in the preferences optionstab according to your wish, except that the export icon format must be set to ICO.

After setting all the preferences options download the generated icon by clicking on the download button. Now you can see that the image format is .ICO.
Rename the downloaded icon name to dextermian.

Step 2: Open Notepad

You can do this by holding Windows key and pressing letter “R”, the Run dialog box appears. Type in the textbox notepad and press Enter key.
In notepad paste the below code:
[autorun]
icon=dextermian.ico

Step 3: Save the file as Autorun.inf

After writing those two lines save this notepad with the name autorun.inf.

Step 4: Hide the files

Hide both these files icon and Autorun.inf, using command prompt so that these files cannot be deleted accidentally. Suppose you want to hide the two files: dextermian.ico andAutorun.inf that are in D: drive, follow these steps:
Holding Windows key and pressing letter “R”, the Run dialog box appears. Type in the textbox cmd and press Enter key.
The Command prompt window appears.
Navigate to D: drive
write attrib +s +h Autorun.inf
Press Enter
write attrib +s +h daya.ico
Press Enter

Again if you want to view or modify the files then write Minus (-) in place of + sign

Step 5: Restart the computer

Now restart the computer, and the drive icon will be changed. I hope this trick helps you.

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