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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And the award goes to….
Papa John’s Pizza for their use of the Go-Go’s “We Got The Beat” changed to “We Got The Meat”. Neither Papa John himself nor the Go-Go’s could be present to accept the award.

Another million dollar home page knockoff, but this one uses planets and pays obvious homage to Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker’s Guide. Check out my small green planet in the upper left.

• CreateAPlanet.com

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