Comments on: Removable Media Drive Icons in Windows XP

By: daddyd

daddyd — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:19:02 +0000

Im trying to figure out how to make my icons change to there hot colors when in use.Because i put a program on my computer a while back for icons and i didn’t like it so i uninstalled it but when i did that it messed my icons up.I was able to get them back by doing a system restore but my icons won’t change colors when i put an sd or usb in my slot it stays gray if anyone knows how to correct this help me out i would greatly appreciate it thanks.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:31:05 +0000

Chris, you are the man, no one could give me an easy answer for this.

I modified the REGISTRY file and moved the icons folder inside Windows folder under a custom name and it worked.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:55:59 +0000

How about in Wndows Vista? I’ve been surfing the web and I found this utility.
Vista only. It might help… http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2007/12/unlocking-winbubble-part-8.html

By: Scottb2

Scottb2 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:25:37 +0000

Never mind about the custom icon I mentioned above…just found it on the sandisk flash drive itself. I think I’m getting the hang of how these things work.

By: Scottb2

Scottb2 — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:06:41 +0000

Chris, I’ve tried several times to unzip RemovableDriveIcons.zip but keep getting an “invalid archive” message. Any way to redo the file? (Don’t know if you can email them to me, but it would be appreciated.)

I’m really looking for the removable icon with the three little wavy green lines over it (as it shows up in the leftmost pane of windows explorer). It would also help if anyone knows the file where that icon lives.

Thanks,
Scott

By: Oxguy3

Oxguy3 — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:10:19 +0000

Also, if you are confused about how to change your drive icons, check out this link to a free PC Magazine article (courtesy of the magazine’s website): http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2018093,00.asp . Note: This article is somewhat outdated and might not be useful on Vista. But it is still worth a view even if you do run Vista.

By: Oxguy3

Oxguy3 — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:06:18 +0000

To anyone looking for drive icons: You can find a lot of them at wincustomize.com , but i haven’t been able to find MMC or any Memory Stick (MS) drives. However, there are icons for USB drives, SD cards, CompactFlash cards, CDs, DVDs, and there’s one user who even posted SmartMedia (though it’s hard to tell, that user is Dutch, because wechseldatenträger was the name of the USB drive) Right now, all I’m looking for is Memory Stick/MS or anything in that series (Pro, Duo, Pro Duo, etc.)

By: Joe Emenaker

Joe Emenaker — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:19:17 +0000

I’m working on amassing photo-realistic icons of all of the USB drives and flash cards out there. The icon files, themselves, contain a variety of resolutions, so that they’ll always look pretty good no matter what size icons you’re looking at in Explorer. Have a peek and let me know what other ones you want me to create. http://joe.emenaker.com/FlashIcons/index.html

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:55:59 +0000

I’ve always just used an autorun.inf file and an icon file stored on the removable media. The autorun.inf points to the icon file and also allows for quick renaming of the media.

By: kevin

kevin — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:11:57 +0000

Is there a way to do the same thing in Windows Vista?

There doesn’t seem to be a HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons registry key in Vista

By: juanje

juanje — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:22:03 +0000

Hey, nice icons, but you can get more in my website. I did them myself some time ago, including Smartmedia, CompactFlash and SD, among others removable devices icons:

http://www.puntodepartida.com/en/icons.php

By: satanko

satanko — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:05:58 +0000

If you want to use icon containing in shell32.dll (or any file), you don’t need to extract each icon as a seperate ico file. Just use “C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,193″ as a file path, where a number after comma is a position of icon within that file (start from 0).

For example:
CF icon: C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,189
SD/MMC icon: C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,193
SmartMedia icon: C:\WINDOWS\system32\shell32.dll,194
(I can’t find MemoryStick icon in shell32.dll.)

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By: nikko

nikko — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:03:36 +0000

i cant find the location of these files…can u give me a better location please.

By: ongle

ongle — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:30:27 +0000

I found this very nice SD card icon:

http://mormegil.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?sid=83&aid=74092&c=1