How can we put personalized icons (icons) at CD/DVD or Flash Drive (USB Stick)

You know that when Buy and CD/DVD with one joc or with one program, in “My Computer” or in the box of AutoPlay O ICON, which of most has is representative for the game or softwarethe on CD.

Here are two examples of ICONS for CDthe original with Microsoft Office 2003 and for one USB stick bootabil cu Windows 7.

Icon CD/DVD Microsoft Office 2003:

Icon USB drive bootabil cu Windows 7:

To put an icon / icon at a CD / DVD or a flash drive, we need only two files. Of o icon (.ico) and the file Autorun.Inf for Autorun (Automatic launch of applications from portable devices).

How can we put personalized icons (icons) at CD/DVD or Flash Drive (USB Stick)

1. First of all we need a icon in format .ICO. We took the icon as an example Windows.ico.

2. Cream near .ICO file, a file with the name Autorun and extension .inf (Autorun.Inf) in which we have the following lines:

[autorun]
ICON=Windows.ico

We open notpad.exe, edit with the two lines, then save the file with the extension .inf.

3. We copy both files on CD/DVD or USB drive in the root director (root directory).

After I copied the two files and wrote the lines in Auto. “My Computer” The icon chosen by us will appear.

Here's what the icon of a USB drive (Removable Disk) looks like after this tutorial:

Before:

After I added the files .ICO and Autorun.Inf :

For download icons in .ICo format I recommend you www.iconspedia.com.

This method is valid for most data storage devices (from HDD extern, Card for phone, until CD/DVD-uri) on operating systems Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (all versions).

Stealth Settings – Put customized icons at CD/DVDs and data storage units (USB flash drive & HDD Extern).