How To Change Drive Icons And Labels

There's a million trick to change drive icons and label, but today, i would share with you one of the method. ^_^


How to change Drive icons and labels (Windows XP,2000)

To change Drive icon:
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\system32/shell32.dll,74

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.