16 COLOUR ICONS

If you select 16bit mode for graphics your icons will revert to using 8bit (16 color) icons. 

Yuck! Change the following registry setting to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics] 

• "Shell Icon BPP"="16" "
•  Shell Icon Size"="32" 
•  Setting the BPP to 16bit will yield 65565 colors for icons.

Change Drive Icons

To set the icon of any drive (hard disk, cd rom or anything else) with a letter (C:\ etc.), run REGEDIT (Start -> Run -> regedit)
Navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Explorer

• If one doesn't already exist, create a new KEY called "DriveIcons". Under this key, create a new key with the letter of your drive. I.e. C for your C:\ drive.
• To change the icon for that drive, create a key inside that one called DefaultIcon and set the path of (Default) to the location of your icon eg C\DefaultIcon\ then (Default) = D:\Documents\C Drive Icon.ico
• To change the name of that drive, create a key in the drive letter one (eg C\) called DefaultLabel and set the (Default) to what you want the drive to be called. This is useful if you want to assign a long name to the floppy drive.