Showing posts with label USB Flashdrive Tricks. Show all posts
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Autoplay Favorite Sound on Clicking your USB Flashdrive | Thumbdrive

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Do you ever wish to have your favorite mp3 play as you click on the icon of your USB Flashdrive? Yes at last! As I tried "googling" for quite some time I wasn't able to find one tutorial on the net how to autoplay sound upon clicking your flashdrive icon. Now I made one! It might not be perfect but it works on XP. It works by creating 2 files : the autorun.inf file and a batch file. See how I made it.



autoplay sound on USB Flashdrive
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The Batch File

1. Open notepad by pressing Win+R then type in "notepad" in the box (no quotations)

2. In your notepad, copy the following code:

--- Start Copy

@ECHO OFF
start /MIN ding.wav
exit

--- Stop Copy

"ding.wav" is the name of the sound file which you want to play upon clicking on your flashdrive. You may replace it with something like "solo.mp3" or "smooth.mp3" or even your voice recording in wave format. The sound file that you wish to play with autorun should be saved in the root directory of your USB Flashdrive.

3. Save the file as "ding.bat" (with quotations) or "my sound.bat" as long as the .bat extension and the quotations remain upon saving. Save this file in the root directory of your flashdrive.


The Autorun.inf File

1. Open notepad again.

2. Copy the following code:

--- Start Copy

[autorun]
open=ding.bat
action=Run This Ding Program
shell\open\command=ding.bat
label=drokz

--- Stop Copy

"ding.bat" is the name of your batch file
"drokz" is the name of your flashdrive which you can replace of course.

3. Save this file as "autorun.inf" (with quotations) in the root directory of your USB flashdrive.

4. Also save the sound file that you wish to include in your autorun file.

5. Enjoy!


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Putting Background Picture in Your USB Flashdrive | Thumbdrive

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usb flashdrive background image
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Putting a picture background for your flashdrive is a cool customization usb trick! You may have your own picture or any favorite picture to be placed as the background of your USB flashdrive. This is done by putting or copying your picture in root directory of your USB Flashdrive or thumbdrive. Also to be copied is a file called "desktop.ini" file. Follow the steps below to have your USB Flashdrive or thumbdrive a cool picture background!


Adding a Picture in your Flashdrive

1. Copy a picture into your flashdrive. Remember the filename and the file extension of your picture as picture may come as "my pic.jpg" or "my pic.gif"

2. The best picture background for your USB Flashdrive is a picture having a solid plain fill like white, black, dark blue, or any other safer colors. Having high contrast picture as a background can only cause a "trashy" look and will make you find or select your files difficult.


Adding the Desktop.ini file to your Flashdrive

1. Open Notepad by pressing Win+R then type inside the box "notepad" (without the quotation)

2. As the Notepad window appears, copy the following codes below

--- start copy

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
iconarea_image=my pic.jpg
iconarea_text=0x75F85B

--- stop copy

usb flashdrive background
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"my pic.jpg" should be replaced with the name of your picture and its file extension

"0x75F85B" if the text color in Hex. See here for the list of the available colors.
** use ox(hex color value) like 0xFAFBFA for white or 0x75F85B for green

3. Save this in your USB flashdrive as "desktop.ini" (with the quotations)

4. Unplug then replug your flashdrive.

5. Enjoy!

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Customizing USB Flashdrive Icon in My Computer

Posted in Labels: | at 6:03 AM

Funny how we want to make some custom icon for our USB Flashdrive. We can have our faces or any image as an icon instead of that boring default icon for your USB Flashdrive. This USB Flashdrive trick can have your choice of a customized icon that can either be downloaded or use Iconfx to create you own customized icons. Follow these simple steps to create one great customized USB Flashdrive icon! This USB Flashdrive trick is simple yet rocks!


USB Flashdrive Customized Icon



Using MsPaint to create the icon

1. We will first create a customized icon. A 32x32 pixel icon can be simply made using Ms Paint. To open Ms Paint, press Win+R then type in "mspaint" (without quotes)

2. What we will be doing in this example is to "create" a Recycle Bin icon. We will simply copy its image by showing the desktop (Win+D) then press the "PrintScreen" button of your keyboard. Pressing the "PrintScreen" button will copy the full screen image by which we will be pasting this image in MsPaint later.

3. Go to the MsPaint Window and press CTRL+V to paste in the image of the whole screen. Use the "Select" tool to crop an image of the pasted picture. As said earlier, We will be using the Recycle Bin image as the icon. Crop the Recycle Bin image tightly.

4. After finishing to crop, press CTRL+X then CTRL+N to open new Ms Paint Window and press CTRL+V to paste in the newly cropped image. Set the image attribute by pressing CTRL+E and type in 32 for the width and 32 for the height and click OK. Save the file in your USB Flashdrive root directory with the filename as "my icon.ico" (with quotations ~ don't ask! :-] ).

5. Next is to make an Autorun.inf file. Go to "Run" or press Win+R, then in the box type in "notepad" (without quotes). In your notepad window, copy the following code:

start copy
--------

[autorun]
icon=my icon.ico

--------
end copy

6. Save this file in your USB Flashdrive root directory as "Autorun.inf" (with quotations)

7. Remove your flash drive and plug it back and there you go! :-)

Using the Downloaded Icon

1. Download your favorite icon and save it in your USB Flashdrive.

2. Copy the following code and save it as "autorun.inf" (with quotations)

start copy
--------

[autorun]
icon=my icon.ico

--------
end copy

3. Replace the "my icon.ico" to the name of your downloaded icon name. Ex "face.ico"

4. Unplug then replug your USB Flashdrive and see what happens!


If you want to create your own icon use IconFx.

Hope you like this USB Flashdrive trick!

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