Want to give your GPSMAP 79 a custom name or icon?
Want your
GPSMAP 79 to stand out when connected to your computer?
You've come to the right place!
Create Icon
- Select or create images to use as icons for your GPSMAP 79 and microSD Card
- Size each image to 256x256 pixels and save in PNG format
- Visit this link to convert each PNG file to ICO format
- Save the converted ICO files to a safe location on your PC
- Or choose from these GPSMAP 79 Icons
Install Icon
- Connect your GPSMAP 79 and enter Mass Storage Mode
- Copy your new custom GPSMAP 79 icon to the [GPSMAP 79]\Garmin\ directory.
- Copy your custom microSD Card icon to the [microSD]\Garmin\ directory.
Enable Icon
- Connect your GPSMAP 79 and enter Mass Storage Mode
- Navigate to the root directory of your GPSMAP 79 GPSr
- Open autorun.inf with Notepad (or Notepad++)
The default autorun.inf file will look similar to this:
[autorun] icon=Garmin\Garmintriangletm.ico action=Garmin GPSMAP 79 label=Garmin GPSMAP 79
Modify the second line to reflect the name and location of the custom icon you copied to your GPSMAP 79. For example, if we placed an icon named GPSMAP 79.ico in the [GPSMAP 79]\Garmin\ directory, we would make the following modification:
[autorun] icon=Garmin\GPSMAP 79.ico action=Garmin GPSMAP 79 label=Garmin GPSMAP 79
Save the edited autorun.inf file.
To do the same for the microSD Card, place the GPSMAP 79 uSD.ico in the [microSD]\Garmin\ directory and the autorun.inf file to the root directory of your microSD Card, and make similar edits:
[autorun] icon=Garmin\GPSMAP 79 uSD.ico action=Garmin GPSMAP 79 label=Garmin GPSMAP 66r
Save the edited autorun.inf file.
Change Device Name
Want to change the name of your device in Windows Explorer? If we wanted our GPSMAP 79 to appear as "79sc" in windows explorer, we would make the following edit:
[autorun] icon=Garmin\GPSMAP 79.ico action=Garmin GPSMAP 79 label=79sc
Save the edited autorun.inf file.
Similarly, we can make the following edit to the autorun.inf file on the GPSMAP 79 microSD card:
[autorun] icon=Garmin\GPSMAP 79 uSD.ico action=Garmin GPSMAP 79 label=79sc uSD
Save the edited autorun.inf file.
