i want to change the look of my hard drive icons.

i am aware of different types of programs to change the look and feel of xp.

but i just want to change the look of the hard drives. not the entire xp.

thanks

since u posted here ill think u mean unattendedly doing it, i think they are in shell32

Yup,

I hv seen simonsay's hard drive icons and they look really nice. I think

he is activating or changing them during runonceEX.cmd.

Also look for a place where i can get cool looking icons. FREE

It easier to just hack your own shell32.dll

To Change The Hard Drive You Have To

Change Icon 008 or 009 in shell32.dll

To Change My Computer Icon Change 001 Icon In Explorer.exe.

Edited October 26, 200520 yr by gunsmokingman

care to elaborate on the process?

download resource hacker

open reshacker , point it to your shell32.dll

expand the tree to the item u want 2 "hack"

right click it, choose appropriate option

voila

i don't like resource hacker. Can i use Resbuild/ResEdit instead?

when u say hack what do u mean?

let say i hv an icon that i like what do i do?

yes, u can use anything 2 "hack"

hack = modifying the file 2 suit your needs *customizing*

open shell32.dll in the program, browse 2 the place where the icon is stored (009 gunsmokingman said)

right click, replace resource, browse 2 the icon u want there instead

Why do you want that much of trouble ?

Just place an autorun.inf file in the root of your partitions.

[AutoRun]
icon=%windir%\icons\HDD.ico

never thought of that

EDIT: just tried it & it dont work

download resource hacker

open reshacker , point it to your shell32.dll

expand the tree to the item u want 2 "hack"

right click it, choose appropriate option

voila

That the short way it correct but you need to do this also

copy the file to a new folder on your %systemdrive%\WHATEVERNAME

This is so you can save the file, after making any changes. If you try to change any of Windows Files in

Windows It will not save.

Edited October 26, 200520 yr by gunsmokingman

try this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIcon]
""="c:\\icons\\local disk.ico"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\D\DefaultIcon]
""="c:\\icons\\local disk.ico"

FANTASTIC!!!

now who wants to give me some icons... come on i know u want to.

dont hold back i am waiting...

look something similar to alienware. or something cool.

try this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\C\DefaultIcon]
""="c:\\icons\\local disk.ico"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DriveIcons\D\DefaultIcon]
""="c:\\icons\\local disk.ico"

that works, but i altered your code

@="c:\\WINDOWS\\Resources\\icons\\System\\hdd.ico"

instead of

""="c:\\WINDOWS\\Resources\\icons\\System\\hdd.ico"

maybe this freeare program, NO installer too!

http://www.virtualplastic.net/scrow/iphile.html