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Its been over three months since I wrote USB Drive AutoRun.inf Tweaking but there is still some very good activity over at this article.

For example, Aaron has created a couple of batch files that change the icon displayed by the USB drive. When it is plugged in, it randomly selects a different icon to display for the next time it is launched.

Inspired by Aaron’s work, Kevin created an AutoIt script that performs a very similar task!

I think that this is a really good example of people taking different technologies (i.e. autorun.inf configuration and batch/AutoIt programming), and coming up with something even better than the original. I am even considering adding some of Kevin’s work into my DCoT Menu application (with Kevin’s permission, of course)!

If anyone else has some good examples of how you have combined two seemingly unrelated technologies and come up with something bigger than the sum of the two, feel free to let everyone know in the comments. Or, if you are especially proud of a solution you have created, you may want to write a complete article for DCoT!

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3 Responses to “Randomly Change USB Drive Icon”

1. Aaron Lowndes Says:
   January 27th, 2007 at 8:24 pm

   Whoa Tim you are awesome - i really didn’t expect to have any mention on the front page of your site!
   Well, I’ve just discovered AutoIT and with the help of Keviin and anyone else who wants to join the discussion to create a working idiot-proof program, we will hopefully get to the stage where we/I can write that article!

   Cheers
   Aaron

2. Keviin Says:
   August 18th, 2007 at 11:17 am

   lolz, it’s been quit a while since i’ve been here. haha, it’s still doing soo well, great work Tim!

3. Revski-Sensei Says:
   September 23rd, 2007 at 3:34 am

   I’ve done the batch file thing and had a VBScript to run the batch file in the background so that i won’t see that annoying command prompt window. Then I had the autorun.inf run the VBScript…

   It works well execpt that i noticed that everytime I open the USB drive, explorer opens it in a new window… Is there a way to open it in the same window?

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