Worked just fine! Now we bought my mother a new 20” Intel iMac, and I can’t remember how to hide the hard drive icon, nor find the article on how to do it. Please help me out here. Happy to.

Perhaps you have seen files on your system with the VHD or VHDX extension with a hard drive icon on a PC you’re using. Those are virtual drives, which users create for various needs, and you can ...

A few weeks ago on the Accidental Tech Podcast, Casey reminded me that it’s possible to customize the icons shown for hard drives. I knew this, but hadn’t done it in a long time. John chided Casey for ...

Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Step 3: Make sure Show Hard Drive Activity is enabled, then click OK. Step 4: You should see the TrayStatus hard drive icon in your system tray.

Mac user Alex mounts a few different hard drives on his Mac, and wanted an easy way to tell them apart - so he made a custom icon for each. To do this yourself you need Icon Composer, which is ...

If your hard drive icon doesn’t appear there, go to Go > Computer, then click the hard drive icon under Devices. 2. Click the File menu, and select Get Info, or press Comand-I on your keyboard.

Ars Scholae Palatinae 16y 812 Subscriptor Apr 19, 2009 #2 Get Info on the Timemachine drive, single click the icon and press Backspace (or Delete, can't be sure) ...

Free application Vista Drive Icon replaces the standard hard drive icons with Vista-style models that display how much space is taken up and turn red when nearly full.

Without these icons, browsing for files stored on these drives or network locations can be annoyingly difficult. Here's how to quickly get those icons back onto the desktop.

Changing my Mac’s hard disk icon to the Dark Lord Sauron A while back I decided to use some names from the Lord of the Rings for my Macs, and I opted to use Sauron as the name of my 5K iMac.