At a friend's house I noticed his Sony Vaio PC running Windows XP Home
displays icons and labels for all flash memory drives in Explorer. In
other words, drive E: has an icon of a memory stick and is labeled
"Memory Stick"; drive F:'s icon is a Compact Flash card and is labeled as such.

My PC has a memory card reader but all the slots just show up as
generic drive letters, which makes it difficult to guess which drive
letter corresponds to a specific flash memory type.

I'm looking for a way to accomplish what Sony did, and it's gotta work
with Windows XP SP2.  Thank you.

Background:
I found the following articles via Google:
http://www.virtualplastic.net/html/icn_drv.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/icon.asp

But both appear to refer to previous versions of Windows, plus various
forum posts that mention the same techniques indicate that these
techniques no longer work. Lastly, I checked my friend's Vaio's
registry in all the locations cited and found nothing to match the
techniques shown.

Hi
I've make a reg file here which could do this, just add these lines
into a text file and rename it "drive.reg". Then double click on
drive.reg to import this command to your Registry.It's working :)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\HelloChangeMe]
"GeneTag"="1"
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\HelloChangeMe\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\whatever.ico"
 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\HelloChangeMe\DefaultLabel]
@="Memory Stick"


In the lines above,please change 3 "HelloChangeMe" to the drive letter
you want licke "E" or "D", for example
below,[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Drive
Icons\E]

While the place "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\whatever.ico" is the path of
your Icon file which represents your drive.

And the "Memory Stick" is the corresponding description,just write
anything whatever you want.

By the way, I've made a reg-file just contact me
rainforest[AT]neoretix.com to get this file if you do not understand
what I say above :)

Hope this helps anyone who wanna do so!