Icons in Computer/Windows Explorer

The_Other_One

The_Other_One

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Here's a little guide... Nothing major, but a neat little thing I decided to do recently to help me figure out which drive was which device. It's quite helpful for us who have multiple drives/devices connected at once, or those card readers that show up as 10 different devices!

Open notepad and type:

[AUTORUN]
icon=icon.ico

icon.ico being whatever the icon will be called. Save it to the root of your deice as autorun.inf.Then either find yourself an icon or create one in your favorite image editing suite. Place the icon on the root of the device. Now safely remove it and re-insert it :good:
 

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Awesome post. :D
But what size are your *ico files? Mine is a 256x256, but it looks like poo - all pixelized under My Computer in 1024x768 Res...

This is my ico file: http://www.jeremydean.co.nr/temp/ (right click firefly.ico, Save Link As...)

I wonder why?

Also, you can give your media a custom name by adding "label=100TB whatchaMaCallIt" or the like to your auotrun.inf file...

here's the AUTORUN.INF for my jump drive:
[AUTORUN]
label=512MB Lexar Firefly
icon=firefly.ico
Click to expand...
 
Well, I guess I should have clearified a bit more about the icons, but I also havn't researched it a whole bunch... What I do is create a 128x128 icon in Photoshop using whatever then save it using a filter I downloaded (Photoshop doesn't support ICO's by default). I think it shrinks it down to 32x32 (whatever you see in the image below). Now what we really need is to make a "package" that has all different sized icons. OH... I also save my icon as a "PNG". Otherwise you're essentially saving the icon as a GIF.

The icon you provided looks good. I see some pixelation but I'm sure it's because it's being shrunk. Maybe try just making it whatever size you want/know it'll display at.

I'm sure there's a writeup somewhere (or we could make one here :P) of all the autorun commands available.
 
Yeah - I've just decided that my XP File Manager must be fux0r3d - it must have "remembered " the first ico file I put in there, which was only 16x16, so looks very pixelated - that's what shows up next to my drive under My Computer:
myComputer.jpg


But then when I click on the drive, I can see a preview of the actual (which is 256x256) icon file, and it looks just fine:

512MBLexar.jpg


So I dunno... somehow the file manager isn't using the proper icon... or something...

but it's late, and time to go to bed. Yeah, a little tutorial might be good, though I'm sure you could google and find at least half a dozen that were comprehensive...
 
OH...wow that is pixelated... Yeah, I guess it's something to do with XP. As you can see it's not the most clear on mine, but nothing like that! I'm sure there's some way to clear it up though. Maybe try some different sizes of icons?
 
Maybe try some different sizes of icons?
Click to expand...

Nah - I think it's just that the computer "remembered" the first icon I put in there... maybe I'll run CCleaner - as you can see, the icon file looks OK in the second pic - which is what the icon in the first pic is supposed to be referencing...
 
I got it to work but can't seem to get it to work right with my Sandisk Cruzer drives with U3 installed.
Any ideas?
 
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