Windows 10: Windows 10: Permanent Custom Folder Icon on external USB Flash Drive?

Discus and support Windows 10: Permanent Custom Folder Icon on external USB Flash Drive? in Windows 10 Customization to solve the problem; Hello. My question is how can I customize the folder icons on a portable drive like a flash drive? I've learned how to change the drive icon itself,... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Customization' started by RetratsRevo, Dec 9, 2017.

  1. Windows 10: Permanent Custom Folder Icon on external USB Flash Drive?


    Hello.
    My question is how can I customize the folder icons on a portable drive like a flash drive? I've learned how to change the drive icon itself, but I want to change the folder icons within the drive directory so that the set icons appear in whatever PC it's connected to.

    I can customize a folder icon by right clicking the folder and selecting properties customize change icon... But this customization only appears on the original system (computer A). When I connect the drive to computer B, the folder icons revert back to the default folder icons. Obviously, computer A retains the setting information, but how do I make the drive retain the settings information so that it displays on computer B like computer A and so on and so forth?

    Thanks for the help!

    Windows 10

    :)
     
    RetratsRevo, Dec 9, 2017
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  2. how to set a permanent custom folder icon in windows 10?

    in earlier version of windows, i can set the custom folder icon to permanent by editing the "desktop.ini" file, with simply erase some part of the icon file address into
    iconresource="icon name".ico,0. it works in win 7, 8, and 8.1. now i use windows 10, i can apply a custom folder icon, but it will revert to default folder icon if i copy or move the folder to another place. i don't like this, you can say, i HATE this
    side of windows 10. tell me! how to make it permanent?
     
    Muhammad IsfanTauhid, Dec 9, 2017
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  3. Permanent Custom Folder Icons

    As the title suggests, I would like to know if custom folder icons can be made permanent in Windows 10. Like, I have changed a folder icon with my own .ico file placed in drive C. Now I move it to say drive D, or copy it to an external drive or send it
    via email, I would like it to show the same folder icon that I changed from the default one to. I have found older posts when searching the internet but they are all for Windows 7 or 8. I would like to know if this can be done in Windows 10.
     
    Mohandas Murmu, Dec 9, 2017
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  4. Edwin New Member

    Windows 10: Permanent Custom Folder Icon on external USB Flash Drive?

    Make sure the custom icon(s) resides in a folder on the usb drive itself.


    Windows 10: Permanent Custom Folder Icon on external USB Flash Drive? [​IMG]
     
    Edwin, Dec 9, 2017
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  5. am i missing something? the drive letter (and the path to the icon) would be different on another computer, I thought I made it clear I want the icon to appear on any and all computers the USB drive is plugged into
     
    RetratsRevo, Dec 9, 2017
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  6. Edwin New Member
    I only highlighted the path just to show that it is a thumb drive.

    You need to put the custom icon, (.ico file), in a folder on the USB drive itself, apply it once on each machine you plug it into, then, after that, you're all set.
     
    Edwin, Dec 9, 2017
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  7. ok I wasn't sure before, but know I know YOU MUST BE JOKING! the reason i asked on the forum is to find out, if at all possible, how to make the icon stay/ do that PERMANENTLY! and not have to do it on each and every PC thats a fools errand, I thought I made that abundantly clear in the description, and apparently I did not, and for that im sorry!
     
    RetratsRevo, Dec 9, 2017
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  8. Edwin New Member

    Windows 10: Permanent Custom Folder Icon on external USB Flash Drive?

    Okay, then it's not possible!
    New found hardware will, in all probability, fall to defaults first.

    Secondly, how many different machines do you intend to plug this thing into, on an ongoing basis, with the NEED to have custom folder icons?
     
    Edwin, Dec 9, 2017
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  9. not possible on windows 10? cause I did find some that supposedly work on windows 7, something involving a desktop.ini file, but when I tried it didn't work

    around 7 machines on a weekly basis
     
    RetratsRevo, Dec 9, 2017
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  10. Edwin New Member
    It will create an Initialization file, but it has to point to a resource that resides on the drive itself!

    I guess you'll have to customize the USB about 7 times! *Wink


    Windows 10: Permanent Custom Folder Icon on external USB Flash Drive? [​IMG]
     
    Edwin, Apr 5, 2018
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