When I open up my computer one of the drive letters (E in the right pane has a 3DHA (3D Home Architect) icon in place of what should be a regular drive icon. I guess when I was test installing 3DHA, it somehow messed up that drive icon, though I have no idea why, but their web site offers no help. I've since removed the software but nothing I've tried will allow me to change the icon back to a regular drive icon. I prefer not to download a 3rd party program unless I have to. I've come across a few sites that offered some tips but everthing I've tried only changes the icon in the left pane. In fact the properties for the drive letter in the right pane don't even have a change icon button, anywhere.
4 x 4GB DDR3-1600 Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B (16GB)
Graphics card(s)
MSI GeForce GTX770 Gaming OC 2GB
Sound Card
Realtek High Definition on board solution (ALC 898)
Monitor(s) Displays
ViewSonic VA1912w Widescreen
Screen Resolution
1440x900
Hard Drives
OCZ Agility 3 120GB SATA III x2 (RAID 0)
Samsung HD501LJ 500GB SATA II x2
Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 1TB SATA II
Iomega 1.5TB Ext USB 2.0
WD 2.0TB Ext USB 3.0
The information contained in the tip is exactly what I found at other vista tip sites but, again, this changes the icon in the left side of the pane. On the right side of the pane, there isn't even a 'change icon' button under the properties for that drive.
Actually the information contained in that tip is exactly what I found when I was searching for a solution; however, this does work for the drive icons on the left pane of the "My Computer" folder but the drive icons' on the right pane don't seem to have a 'change icon' button in their drive properties.
The methods in the tutorial should change the icons for that drive everywhere in Vista. Double check to make sure that the icon you are using a 256x256 icon designed for use with Vista that includes the smaller and larger icon sizes in the icon file.