Customize USB Drive or External Hard Disks

How to customize your USB  or External Hard Disks ?

First you need to know is that there are 2 important files

1 Desktop.ini

2 Autorun.inf

Desktop.ini File is used to set the background for your USB drive root folder.

Autorun.inf File is used to set the Icon for the USB.

To Set Background Image

Open Notepad.exe

and copy following code

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

ICONAREA_IMAGE=ICON.JPG (name of your desire picture to be your background)

ICONAREA_TEXT=000099

then save it as "Desktop.ini" without quotes in the root folder of your USB.

Imp : Icon.jpg must be in your root folder.

To Set Text colors you can use following code for respective colors for the value ofICONAREA_TEXT

Color Code

FFFFFF – white
AAAAAA – grey
0000FF – red
3366FF – orange
00FFFF – yellow
00FF00 - green
AAAA00 – blue
000000 – black
003366 – brown
800080 – violet
FF00FF – purple

Before :

 After :