I found this trick online the other day (but didn’t note where I found it). You can easily make your USB drive show up in Windows with a custom icon. Simply find an .ico file you want to use (favicons from websites work nicely). I used my favicon for this site: .

Simply put your .ico file in the root of your drive then create a text file called autorun.inf in the root of the drive and put this inside it:
[autorun]
icon=autorun.ico

(obviously putting your icon’s name in)

Now, whenever you plug it into a Windows machine, it will show your custom icon!

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