Thread: How to Change XP Drive Icons

1. Click start<run, type in "regedit" in the box without quotes.
2. Navigate to this location

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons

If the key does not already exist then create it.

3. Right click on the DriveIcons folder and create a new sub-key with a single letter representing the drive letter of the drive to be modified. (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\C])

To create a sub-key, simply right click on the DriveIcons folder, and a new menu will popup, select new, then key. Name it the letter of the drive you want to change the icon for.

4. Right click on the letter you specified to change, say C, and create another sub-key called "DefaultIcon" (e.g. [HKEY...\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIcon])



5. Set the "(Default)" value to equal the fully qualified name of the icon file. If the file contains more that one icon follow it with a comma and the zero-based index of the icon (e.g. "c:\icons\myicons.dll,4".

If you want to change the name of the drive:

Create another sub-key within the drive letter key called "DefaultLabel" (e.g.
[HKEY...\DriveIcons\C\DefaultLabel]) and set it's "(Default)" value to equal the label for the drive letter (e.g. "My ZIP Drive".

For example:

DefaultIcon
(Default) = c:\icons\myicons.dll,4

DefaultLabel
(Default) = My ZIP Drive