How to change Windows 7 Hard-Drive Icons

Hope this tutorial helps people to have some fun.

1: Open the run command (or Windows + R) then type regedit and press enter.

2: In regedit, go to the following: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes (Tell me if it's the same for 32bit, i tested it in 64bit.)

3: On the left side, Right click on Classes and click on New then Key. Type Applications and press enter. (If already have the folder, go to the next step)

4: On the left side, Right click on Applications and click on New then Key. Type Explorer.exe and press enter. (If already have the folder, go to the next step)

5: On the left side, Right click on Explorer.exe and click on New then Key. Type Drives and press enter. (If already have the folder, go to the next step)

6: On the left side of regedit, right click on Drives and click on New then Key. Type the drive letter eg: [C] that you want to change the icon to and press enter.

7: On the left side, Right click on the drive letter folder eg: [C] and click on New and Key. Type DefaultIcon and press enter.

It should look like this: 


8: On the right side, Right click on (Default) and click "Modify" (To convert jpeg's/png's and others to icon files, go to this very useful website i found)Online Website Converter Obviously .GIF's do not work.

Example said:

D:\Images\Randy.ico

Image below to help some people.





9: Close Regedit.

10. The changes should happen immediately, but in some cases you may need to restart your computer to apply the changes.

End Result