How To Change C:\ Hard Drive Icon in My Computer

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How To Change C:\ Hard Drive Icon in My Computer Windows XP

I have searched high and low for this .. but have had little success until recenly. My c drive icon has been corrupt for a while now and folks on the net have suggested creating an autorun.inf file and placing it at the root of the drive. This will create the same effect that I was looking for but IMO this is just a stop gap measure. I finaly stumbled upon a post on

astahost.com from a member by the name of soleimanian and followed some of his suggestions. I am running a modified version of XP so your milage may very.

Start menue >
Run
type regedit

Sort down through the registry till you find

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer

if there is not a Key under Explorer Named DriveIcons create one

under DriveIcons create (if its not there already) a new key with driver letter C for example with in the drive letter create a new key and name it DefaultIcon

give the default value the icon you want to use like

%SystemRoot%\System32\shell32.dll,8

This was the icon I wanted to use in my shell32.dll file.

Now you ask how do I know which icon I want to use??? That will be in the next post

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