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How to set USB Drive custom icons using simple steps

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If you use more than one pen drives on your computer, it’s quite common to get confused to detect where the pen drive that you want is. What if you could be able to use a custom picture for the USB drive, it sounds great right!!! You can actually do that, I am going to take you through the process of how to do that in this piece of article.

Now let us get started

When you plug in your USB drive to your computer, it will show up like this

USB Drive

Now it’s time for you to choose a custom icon for the USB drive. Now if you want the original icon for it, it can be downloaded. You just have to type “<Pendrive model number> ico” and download the custom icon of your choice in .ico format.

Now rename the filename of the .ico file as autorun.ico and move it to the root of your USB flash drive.

Now create a text file by the name autorun.inf using Notepad with the following text in it and place it in the root of your drive.

[autorun]
Label=”put here the label name that you want to name for your drive”
Icon=filename.ico (Replace the file name with the filename of your icon file)

 For example:

[autorun]

Label=B V RAO

Icon=bvrao.ico

That is it you are done.

You can even hide these items by changing the attributes.

After this process, just unplug your device and plug it again to see the custom icon.

You can even use your image as the flash drive icon. But in these you first need to convert your image from .jpg format or any other format that it is to .icon format. There are some converters available online and one of them that I suggest is ImageToIcon.

So these are the simple steps that you can follow to place a custom icon to your external drive.

How to get extra space on any USB Drive

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We use universal serial bus drives regularly in our day to day lives. They will make the transfer process from one computer to the other computer very easy. But all our concern will be about the available Giga bytes in the USB drive as the Giga bytes of our files increase. Don’t worry here is a quick trick that will help you to increase the storage space in your USB drive by reducing the file sizes of the files in it.

Doing this process may cause a bit delay in opening your files, but still you can continue using your drive as you do before.

All you have to do is just so simple

First thing you need to do is formatting the disk. If you have any important files in your disk, store them somewhere and then right click on the USB drive and click on Format. Then you have to make sure that NTFS is selected as the file system and then tick the Quick Format box and then click on Start. By this you will be done with the formatting procedure.

Now you have to right click the USB drive and then open its properties this time. In the opened dialogue box, tick the Compress this drive to save disk space box and then click on apply and finally confirm your choice with the option that includes sub-folders and files and that’s all you are done with the compression of your USB drive.