How to Change Default Icon on your USB DISK

By Jauhari on 29 June, 2006

This chapter I’ll show you how to change default/standar your USB DISK icon with you own design Icon or some icons from another world and what we need it in this chapter?

The Software
- Notepad or vim or other text editor for edit autorun.inf
- Adobe Photoshop or other icon designer.
- If you using photoshop you will need this plugins, this Adobe Photoshop plugins will export you image to .ICO ready.

Let get started

One:
Open your notepad/vim/etc and write down this simple code

[AUTORUN]
ICON=youiconname.ico

Then save you work to you USB DISK and give name of that file autorun.inf
Two: [skip this if you have own icon]
- Open you Adobe Photoshop and make some New File with this size 128 x 128px, 72 x 72px, 48 x 48px, 32x 32px or just 16x16px.
- Make nicely design icon like this
- Save As to your USB DISK on root directory and give name of you icon, Before you save select extension .ICO (Windows Icon)
Three:
If you have icon ready just copy you icon to your USB DISK folder, and don’t forget to make you icon name same as in the autorun config icon name.

Unplug you usb disk then plug in again, and this my Result

USB Icon

Hola…. You was successfully change you default icon.

16 responses to “How to Change Default Icon on your USB DISK”

Op 30 June, 2006 at 8:28 am | Permalink | Reply

Blognya informatip sekaleeee, tapi saya roaming euy..hihi gaptek :”>
ario dipoyono 30 June, 2006 at 12:41 pm | Permalink | Reply

ha…ha… ini berguna nih, tumben ada tutorial yang bagus:)>-
Alee 30 June, 2006 at 3:03 pm | Permalink | Reply

Hey that was cool! … i want to ask that is there any way to make an
“autorun” file for the usb ??
dental 30 June, 2006 at 3:43 pm | Permalink | Reply

oot: kok gw kayaknya kenal ya Color Scheme layout ini *ups*
Jauhari 30 June, 2006 at 7:12 pm | Permalink | Reply

Make Autorun is easy.
Just add this code on your autorun.inf

[AUTORUN]
OPEN=yourfile.ext
ICON=Bluetooth.ico
kus 3 July, 2006 at 7:53 pm | Permalink | Reply

nice , tapi yang buat OSX nya mana?
manontheland 4 July, 2006 at 1:45 pm | Permalink | Reply

It’s nice tips. I hope that I can application this tutorial.
Nice to meet you.
Thx:)
dewi 4 July, 2006 at 1:47 pm | Permalink | Reply

oot: ada lagunya…tapi di rumah.. hehehe
andriansah 26 July, 2006 at 9:21 am | Permalink | Reply

hehehehe info berguna nih…

ganti ahhh

thank yah
andriansah 26 July, 2006 at 8:06 pm | Permalink | Reply

wah gw coba hanya kotak doang (

gimana caranya yah?
Jauhari 28 July, 2006 at 10:52 pm | Permalink | Reply

#11
Cara apanya? khan udah jelas? trus maksudnya Kotak doang :-/
Coba aja Mas andri cari file *.ico dulu trus di autorun.inf larikan ke file *.ico itu. tapi ingat file itu harus di taruh di USB Disk juga
awan 27 September, 2006 at 1:26 pm | Permalink | Reply

subhanallah
saki 26 March, 2007 at 2:52 pm | Permalink | Reply

kalo file yang mau di autoran tipenya .exe gimana?????
misalnya kita punya file opening bertipe .exe mau di buat autoran saat flash disk konek.ada yang tau gak caranya. thank’s be4……….
andreaz 23 August, 2007 at 8:20 pm | Permalink | Reply

Thanks Bro Bisa deh GW ^_^
JOeN 26 September, 2007 at 2:27 pm | Permalink | Reply

COoL..!:d/ tank U yah
Vadeer 28 January, 2008 at 10:41 pm | Permalink | Reply

Waduh kok gw coba kagak bisa ya? Malahan icon gw jadi rusak ntuh, gambar default usb pon gak kliatan lagi.