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I am the type of person who customizes icons on folders so that I can visually identify what type of folder I am looking for. But what I noticed was, even though I try and try to replace the icon on my flash drive, the customized folder icon only shows up on my desktop (since that’s where I customized them), but they don’t show up on my laptop! What gives?!? That’s because you have to have the appropriate folders within the root directory of your flash drive and link to them correctly so that your icons show up on your flash drive folders.
So how are we going to replace a folder’s icon on a flash drive that can also be seen on another computer? Read on!
Things we'll need:
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| USB Flash Drive |
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| Icons |
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| Notepad |
Instructions:
1. Plug in your USB Flash Drive.
2. Create a Folder on your desktop and name it
“USB”.
3. Open the newly created “USB” folder, and then
create 2 folders inside it. One with the name
“Icons”, the other with any other name you want the
folder to be called. In this case, I shall call the 2nd
folder “Insert your folder’s name here” (wow that’s
long!).
4. Place the icons you’re going to use for the flash
drive inside the “Icons” folder (Note: Icon must be in
.ico format or it will not work!)
5. Now Right-click on the 2nd folder (“Insert your
folder’s name here” folder) and select “Properties”.
6. Click on the “Customize” tab, then click “Change
Icon”.
7. Click on “Browse”, then navigate your way to the
Icons folder we created, and then choose the icon
you want to use, then click “Ok”. The 2nd folder’s
icon will now be replaced by the icon we chose.
8. Open Notepad (Start Menu > All Programs >
Accessories> Notepad, or you can just type
“Notepad” on the search bar).
9. On Notepad, Click on “File” then “Open...”
10. Browse to the 2nd folder and open it.
11. The folder will show blank (because there are no
files inside!), and on the File name, type
“desktop.ini”.
12. Click on "Open", and you will see this code
sequence:
[.ShellClassInfo]
IconResource=C:\Users\”user
profile”\Desktop\USB\Icons\”icon name.ico,0
[ViewState]
Mode=
Vid=
FolderType=Generic
Just Replace the
C:\Users\”user profile”\Desktop\USB\Icons
\”icon name.ico,0
to
..\Icons\”icon name.ico,0
then save (ctrl+s or File->Save).
13. Now open your flash drive and drag both the
Icon folder and the 2nd folder (simultaneously) to
the flash drive’s window and you’re ready to go!
Tips:
• Repeat the steps for each folder you want to add an icon to, and
drag-and-drop the folders to the flash drive.
• If you
will add a new icon on the icons folder, just drag and drop it on the icon
folder and follow the steps again.
• You can
just hide the icon folder so it will only show the 2nd folder.
• If you
didn’t follow step 12, the icons will not show up on the flash drive!
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