USB flash drives are portable and allow us to easily carry data around with us. If you connect more than one USB flash drive to a computer it can be bit tricky to find the USB drive you are looking for from the bunch. What if you can use custom icons for each USB drive that you use? You can create custom icon for USB drive easily so when you connect your drive to any computer it will display your custom icon instead of default removable disc icon.

Continue reading to know how you can create custom icon for a USB drive.

First need to have .ico image file, many websites features .ico images as their favicon. There are many .ico files already present in your computer, to locate these files open search and enter *.ico. All the files that have .ico extension will be displayed select a file from the given list.

If you do not like any of the .ico image files then you can create one of your own. You can even use your favorite image and generate .ico image file of it. To know how you can generate .ico image file of your favorite image click here.

Once you are ready with the .ico file copy it to the root of your USB drive and rename .ico it to autorun.ico. Now open notepad and copy the following text to it [autorun]

Icon=autorun.ico

and save the file as autorun.inf. Now copy this autorun.inf file to the root of your USB drive. That’s it you have just create a custom icon for your USB drive. Now you can see your USB custom icon when you connect it to any computer.