How To Set The Icon Of Any Drive Win XP
5:00 AM | Author: Harpreet Singh Khandiyal
1. Open the Registry Editor click on the Start button on your taskbar, then click on Run and type "regedit" and click on OK to start the regedit utility.
2. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
3. Create a new key called "DriveIcons". Under this key, create a new key with the letter of your drive.
4. 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.

Example: C:\DefaultIcon\
then (Default) = E:\Icons\IconName.ico
Add Your Name to Right-Click to My Computer
4:57 AM | Author: Harpreet Singh Khandiyal
Copy/Paste the following code in Notepad And then Save it as .reg
Then double click on it to merge it with the regisrty
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::CODE::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Registry Editor]
@="Your Name Or Name of the Application"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\Registry Editor\command]
@="Location Of The Application"
Clear the Past Items list in the Windows Vista Taskbar
7:12 AM | Author: Harpreet Singh Khandiyal
The Notification Area holds a past items list for Applications that once appeared on the notification area.As you can see in the screenshot below the past items are full of apps and programs which were runned quite some time ago. For instance the activation item which I ran the same day Vista was installed.

These items can be cleared by editing the following registry keyCode:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify]IconStreams and PastIconsStream

To clear the past items do the following:
  1. Browse to the registry keyHKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify
  2. Then rename the key's IconStreams and PastIconsStream to IconStreams_2 and PastIconsStream_2
  3. Create 2 new Binary key's called IconStreams and PastIconsStream and give them the default value.
  4. Now delete the first 2 key's IconStreams_2 and PastIconsStream_2 (the ones you renamed)
  5. All you have to now is reload the registry by logging off and on or restart Windows Vista.After this the list should be blank and cleared.