Want to give your GPSMAP 86 a custom name or icon?
Want your
GPSMAP 86 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 86 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 86 Icons
Install Icon
- Copy your new custom GPSMAP 86 icon to the [GPSMAP 86]\Garmin\ directory.
- Copy your custom microSD Card icon to the [uSD]\Garmin\ directory.
Enable Icon
- Connect your GPSMAP 86 and enter Mass Storage Mode
- Navigate to the root directory of your GPSMAP 86 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 86 label=Garmin GPSMAP 86
Modify the second line to reflect the name and location of the custom icon you copied to your GPSMAP 86. For example, if we placed an icon named GPSMAP 86.ico in the [GPSMAP 86]\Garmin\ directory, we would make the following modification:
[autorun] icon=Garmin\GPSMAP 86.ico action=Garmin GPSMAP 86 label=Garmin GPSMAP 86
Save the edited autorun.inf file.
To do the same for the microSD Card, place the GPSMAP 86 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 86 uSD.ico action=Garmin GPSMAP 86 label=Garmin GPSMAP 86
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 86 to appear as "86" in windows explorer, we would make the following edit:
[autorun] icon=Garmin\GPSMAP 86.ico action=Garmin GPSMAP 86 label=86
Save the edited autorun.inf file.
Similarly, we can make the following edit to the autorun.inf file on the GPSMAP 86 microSD card:
[autorun] icon=Garmin\GPSMAP 86 uSD.ico action=Garmin GPSMAP 86 label=86 uSD
Save the edited autorun.inf file.
