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I for one, think that all default icons are sort of lame, the Vista icons were cool and refreshing the first time I booted up my Ultimate Edition, after two more times of starting it up I though they were lame.One time while exploring a my Battlefield 2142 CD I looked in the autorun.inf file and immediately noticed how easy it was to change the icon of my removable drives. It is so simple, and the icon will show up on any computer you pop that drive or device into. All you have to do is open notepad and type exactly what is in the screen shot below. You will most likely want to replace the values after the equals sign, the label(title) can be anything, and the icon, obviously, must be the full name of the icon including the .ico extension.

Mine looks like this:

After you finish typing all that up, save the file as autorun with the extension .inf (autorun.inf). Next, place both the autorun file and the icon file on the drive and then unplug it. When you plug it back in it should say whatever you typed for a label and show the icon you’ve chosen. If you like, you can also choose to hide these files, that way they won’t get in your way either.

Before:

After:

This Predator icon is from Iconshock. When you sign up for their free offer, you get a new set every fifteen days, and of course, one right when you sign up. My set was the AVP set. That’s a pretty good deal if you ask me. You can also pay to download the ones you want. Okay, enough friendly advertising… I’d really like to see what other people come up with, so if anyone actually does this, it would would be cool if you could show me.