How to Change Your USB Flash Drive Icons
I recently bought a 160GB Wester Digital portable hard drive
Step by Step Instruction:
1. Create an icon you want for your drive. You can select any picture you want and convert it to an icon here.
2. Copy paste it to the root directory of your flash drive and go to the Explorer options: Tools > Folder Options. Click View and Show Hidden Files and Folders.
3. Right click the autorun.inf and uncheck “read only” property and open it. If there is none at the moment, open up notepad and create one. Save it as autorun.inf to the root directory of your portable flash drive.
4. Write the code inside autorun.inf and save it:
[autorun]
icon = .\linux.ico
label=Linux
Of course, you have to change the linux.ico to the filename of your icon file. And also the label Linux to the name you want for the drive.
5. Save all your changes and go back to Folder options to unshow hidden files so that your files will not be seen. Remove usb drive and plug it in again. You will see your new icon in the startup of your flash drive.
Congratulations. You’ve just customized your flash drive icon and label. 
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not working…the icon is unknown…what should i do..?
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does anyone know how to do this on mac osx?
thanks!
can anyone help???? its not working for me.
[autorun]
icon = .\linux.ico
label=Linux
save this as autorun.inf
if your icon is in another folder:
icons(another folder)
[autorun]
icon = .\icons\linux.ico
label=Linux
[autorun]
icon = .\linux.ico
label=Linux
save this as autorun.inf
if your icon is in another folder:
icons(another folder)
[autorun]
icon = .\icons\linux.ico
label=Linux
^^
what should i do if my avast antivirus detects it as a malware?
Hi
I also want to change my USB Drive icon
Finally i can find my result in this site
thanks a lots for all of the developer
JACK
why is the icon return to its default eventhough i don’t change it?
I also know this trick but all the antivirus software treat autorun.inf as a virus, even though I know that this file has been created by me and there is no HARM but it still avast says “Virus in autorun.inf”…How to get rid off it…
To change the icon, right click and choose “properties”, then on the “shortcut” tab, choose “Change Icon”.
Thank You For This Info
Good Luck
Thanks for the solution … my problem solved.
Thank you for this blog, I was looking for Avast Antivirus on Yahoo and found this webpage.
why does it is being detect as virus in other computers?
thanxxx man ur a rockstar
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That’s great for a PC
What about a Mac/PC Hybrid?
but autorun is being detected by the antivirus… is there any thing or way on how to change the icon on my flash drive!!!!!!
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