It is very easy to create custom Windows Icons and use them on your favorite folders and drives on your computer. You can create icons from your favorite photos or images. Icons are nothing but images in .ico format if you can convert an image into .ico format with right resolution then you can use that image as icon. Let me tell you the easiest way to create .ico images from your favorite images or photos using a simple tool.

SimplyIcon is a small portable application which helps you to create windows icons easily. This application requires no installation and creates icons of images and photos on fly. Just download the application to your computer and double click on it to launch the application. Now drag and drop images and photos directly into SimpleIcon window to create .ico files of it.

When you drag and drop images or photos to this application it will give you four different options to choose from. You can choose to get 128 x 128, 32 x 32, 24 x 24 or 16 x 16 size image. Click on the image size of which you want to create an icon (.ico file) and it will to stored directly in the same folder in which original image or photo is stored.

There are other online tools available using which you can generate .ico files of any image or photos you want. Some of these services even allow you to generate .ico files of online images, just provide URL of the image to get icon of it. Favicons of websites are also .ico files you can download and use even these image files as icons.

Once you have .ico file of an image now you can apply it as icon for any folder or drive in your computer. You can change the default drive icon for any of the removable storage media like USB flash drive, camera, etc., and replace them with your favorite image icon.