Thursday 21 August 2008

Change The Icons Of Removable Drives

Create your icon, or find one online.

A good size is 34 pixels square.

Open Notepad to create your Autorun file.

Type [AutoRun] in the first line.

Name your drive in the second line: label=Name

Specify your icon in the third line: ICON=your-icon-file.ico.

If you wanted to call your drive "My USB Drive" with an icon named "3GFun.ico", your code would look like this:
[AutoRun]
label=My USB Drive
ICON=3GFun.ico

Click File, then Save As. 

Change the file type to "All" and name it AUTORUN.inf
Ensure that both your AUTORUN.inf and .ico files are in the ROOT of
your removable drive, instead of a folder.


Alter Startup and Shutdown Audio

Turn your computer on and log in if necessary.

Enter the 'Sounds and Audio Device Properties'.
Click on the start button, and navigate your mouse to the 'control panel' icon.

Find the 'sounds and audio devices' icon and double click on it.

Choose the second tab along labeled 'Sounds'. You will see the windows
events on the bottom and a drop down list of preinstalled sounds.

Choose any sound that you would like from there the drop down list, or
click on the 'browse' button and point the event to this other sound
file (.wav extension files only).

Once you're happy with your choices, click 'Apply' then 'Okay', and
enjoy your new sounds.