reg from http://
www.annoyances.org/exec/download/vistazip.reg, and double-click it as just
described.
If you??™re interested in trying out the Registry hack by hand, see the ???Turn
Off ZIP Support (the Hard Way)??? sidebar, next.
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Shell Tweaks
Customize Drive and Folder Icons
There may come a time when you get a little sick of the generic icons used for
drives and folders in Windows Explorer. Now, you??™ve probably figured out
that you can create a shortcut to any drive or folder, choose a pretty icon, and
place it on the desktop or in another convenient location. Unfortunately, the
icon you choose is just for the shortcut; the target object always looks the same.
Here are some ways to give your folders and drives a more custom look.
Solution 1: Choose an icon for a drive
Using the functionality built in to Windows??™ CD auto-insert notification feature
??”functionality that allows Windows to determine the name and icon of
a CD as soon as it??™s inserted in the reader (see ???Search Tricks,??? later in this
chapter)??”there??™s a simple way to customize the icons of all your drives,
including flash drives and USB hard disks:
1. Open a plain-text editor, such as Notepad.
2. Type the following:
[autorun]
icon=filename, number
where filename is the name of the file containing the icon, and number is
the index of the icon to use (leave number blank or specify 0 [zero] to use
the first icon in the file, 1 for the second, and so on).
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