Customize Drive Icons

Windows Explorer and My computer, Windows will assign a drive icon like Hard drive, CD/DVD, Removable media, etc. You may wish to customize the drive icon. For instance, you would like to bring Windows 7 hard disk icons to your Windows XP.

In this article we will explain you step by step guide to change the drive icons in Windows quickly by using free utility “My Drive Icon”.

1. Download My Drive Icon.

2. It is a zip file. Extract the content and double click on “DI.exe” file in it
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3. My Drive Icon application gets launched. Select the icon file by clicking the browse through icon. You need to have icon file. Icon files are usually in .ico format.

4. In the programs interface, use the drop down list to specify the drive whose icon you want to change.

5. Enter a label as desired. For example “Movies”. You can now preview the new icon.

6. Click “Apply changes” button. Now open explorer and refresh it to see the new icon in place of old drive icon.

Any time you feel that you want the old icon back, just select the drive and click “Restore Defaults” to revert to previous icon.