Guide On Adding Background On Your Flash Drive's Folder

USB drive are widely use nowaday. It is portable so we can carry it anywhere for saving our important files like documents, projects, assignments, musics, videos, pictures, etc. in it. When buying USB drive, Im sure some do not consider the storing capacity when buying. Instead, they look for the one with the nice and cool design. Isn't?

Well, to completely make your USB drive look good. I will teach you how to customize USB drive folder's plain white background. So it will have a nice picture of yours or cool background. Just Follow the Steps:

Procedure for Windows Vista and 7

First of all put the image file ( eg. test.jpg) in the folder of the Flash drive. Then create a text file there and rename it to desktop.ini to the folder of the Flash drive.. Make sure it's not a .txt file.

Then open the desktop.ini file in notepad and enter following content.

Code:
[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
IconArea_Image=test.jpg

Procedure for Windows XP

Step 1: Copy the code below in a notepad then save it as "desktop.ini". Save it in your flash drive along with your picture.

[.ShellClassInfo]
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll
IconIndex=127
ConfirmFileOp=0

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
Attributes=1
IconArea_Image="your_picture.jpg"
IconArea_Text="0xFFFFFF"
VeBRA sources - don't delete the tag above, it's there for XXXXX purposes -
[ExtShellFolderViews]
{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}={5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}

[{5984FFE0-28D4-11CF-AE66-08002B2E1262}]
PersistMoniker=Folder.htt
PersistMonikerPreview=%WebDir%\folder.bmp

And just REFRESH or close it then open it once again and you will see your image on USB drive's background. Hope you like it.

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