Here is my new tutorial on How To Change Hard Drive Icon In Windows 7 ,8 & 10. We all want to customize our windows to look fabulous or i say to look attractive. For customization we can do lots of things like use different themes, wallpapers, icons on folders etc. But changing your hard drive icon is not an easy task or is not a feature in windows but you can easily do this with the help of my tutorial that is How To Change Hard Drive Icon In Windows 7 ,8 & 10. There is lots of Method to do this any many software on the internet to do this task but they all are risky and full of virus and malwares but i am going to show you the simplest method which is clean and free from any malware or virus. So lets see How To Change Hard Drive Icon In Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 10. how to change drive icon in windows 10 change hard drive icon windows 7 drive icon changer windows 10 windows 10 drive icon how to change drive icon in windows 8 how to change drive icon in windows 7 how to change hard disk icon how to change drive icon change hard drive icon.
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How To Change Hard Drive Icon In Windows 7 ,8 & 10
Step by Step Guide to Change Hard Drive Icon
1 Goto Search and Type Run, Or Just press Windows+R to open RUN.
2 Type “Regedit” in Run dialog box.
3 Goto “HKEY_CURRENT_USER”.
4 Goto “SOFTWARE”.
5 Goto “Classes”.
6 Right Click on “Classes” Select “New” then Select “Key” and name the new key “Application”
7 Now the new key you created seen like this.
8 Now Right click on “Application” and again select “New” and Click on “Key” and name the new key “explorer.exe”.
9 The new entry will seen like this.
10 Now Right Click on “explorer.exe” again select New and then Key and name the new key “Drives”.
11 Now Right click on “Drives” and select New select Key and name the new key “C” this C is the extention of your hard drive.
How To Change Hard Drive Icon In Windows 7 ,8 & 10
12 Now Right click on “C” again select New then Key and name the key “Defaulticon”.
13 Now in Defaulticon folder Right click on “Default” and Select “Modify”, as shown in the picture.
14 You will see a dialog box like this.
15 Now Goto the folder where you download the ICON’s and copy the address of the icon location as shown in the picture. Remember the icon name also, here my icon name is C.
Note:- Only .ico files are supported so remember this when you download the icon files from internet.
16 Now Paste this Address in the dialog box which appear in the above steps by clicking on the “Default”. As shown in the picture copy the address in Dialog box and type \ and type your icon name and add .ico just after the icon name. click on OK and close the window.
How To Change Hard Drive Icon In Windows 7 ,8 & 10
17 Now Goto My Computer or This PC (Windows 10) and see your Hard Drive icon is Changed.
18 You can do the same procedure from step 11 to 16 For all of your Hard Drive Just Change the Extention like C D E F.
19 After doing this it will see like this.
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