How to Make a Background in Flash Drive

Put a background on your flash drive to personalize it.

Every computer has a desktop background installed on it, but personalization doesn't have to stop there. You can even add a background in a flash drive so that you don't have to use the plain, white background that is in the window by default. If you want to make a background in a flash drive, all you need are basic computer skills and a configuration settings file.

Instructions

1. Plug your flash drive into your computer's USB port and then open the drive by clicking the "Start" button, "My Computer" and then double-clicking on the flash drive.

2. Click "File," scroll to "New" and click "Folder." Name the folder "Background." Locate the picture that you want to use as the background in your flash drive and drag and drop it to the Background folder you just created.

3. Click "File," scroll to "New" and click "Text Document." Don't worry about naming the text document because you will delete it later. Right-click on the text document, scroll to "Open With" and select "Notepad."

4. Copy and paste the following configuration code into the Notepad document, changing the section that says "your image name here.jpg" to the name of your picture:

   [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

   Attributes=1

   IconArea_Image=background\your image name here.jpg

   IconArea_Text=0xFFFFFF

5. Click "File" and then "Save As." Name your file "desktop.ini" and select "All Files" from the "File Type" drop-down menu. Delete the empty text document that you created in step 3. You now have a background set in the flash drive.

Tips & Warnings

• If you only want folders and files visible on your flash drive that you want to be modifiable, hide the Background folder by right-clicking on it, selecting "Properties" and checking the "Hidden" check box.

• Your file must be saved as a configuration settings file (with the .ini extension) for the background to work, so make sure you select "All Files" from the "File Type" drop-down menu so that the document isn't saved as a text document.