ikon on CD drive on PC

[alice20]

Hello,

Does anyone know how to get an image or logo to appear on the CD drive on a PC when a CDRom is put in the machine?

Is it just a simple bit of coding on the autorun file?


Thanks

Emily

 

[archerofloaf]

Yes, just on another line in your autorun.inf, write ICON=x.ico. x being the name of the icon file you will use of course.

 

[alice20]

Thanks very much.

Does it mayyer what type of file it is, should it be a bitmap?

 

[archerofloaf]

i tried a gif in the past and that did not work out for me. Yet it worked when i created a icon file. There are many cheap and free icon file editors that allow you to create an icon file. i do not know about a bitmap; my guess is that it won't work.

 

[alice20]

I did a search for ikon editors on the internet and couldn't find one (sure I'm missing something) could you recommend any?

Thanks

Emily

 

[alice20]

was spelling icon wrong, found Axialis trial and this does the job......... thanks

 

[PDT]

Try irfanview - highly recc and freeware; can convert any image file (jpg, gif, png, tiff etc) to .ico file, also does batch conversions

http://www.irfanview.com

Also can have ICON=x.exe and link to exe file and this exe icon will be CD icon when CD inserted

I find much better than axialis

 

[Wizzbone]

[autorun]
open = filename.exe
icon = filename.exe, 1

if you write this the icon will appear

greetings
Antony