Want to give your eTrex x2x a custom name or icon?
Want your
eTrex x2x 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 eTrex x2x 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 eTrex x2x Icons
Install Icon
- Connect your eTrex x2x and enter Mass Storage Mode
- Copy your new custom eTrex x2x icon to the [eTrex x2x]\Garmin\ directory.
- Copy your custom microSD Card icon to the [microSD]\Garmin\ directory.
Enable Icon
- Connect your eTrex x2x and enter Mass Storage Mode
- Navigate to the root directory of your eTrex x2x 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 eTrex label=Garmin eTrex |
- Modify the second line to reflect the name and location of the custom icon you copied to your eTrex x2x.
- For example, if we placed an icon named eTrex x2x.ico in the [eTrex x2x]\Garmin\ directory, we would make the following modification:
| [autorun] icon=Garmin\eTrex x2x.ico action=Garmin eTrex label=Garmin eTrex |
- Save the edited autorun.inf file.
- To do the same for the microSD Card, place the
eTrex x2x microSD.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\eTrex x2x microSD.ico action=Garmin eTrex label=Garmin eTrex |
- Save the edited autorun.inf file.
Change Device Name
- Want to change the name of your device in Windows Explorer?
- If we wanted our eTrex x2x to appear as "eTrex x2x" in windows explorer, we would make the following edit:
| [autorun] icon=Garmin\eTrex x2x.ico action=Garmin eTrex label=eTrex x2x |
- Save the edited autorun.inf file.
- Similarly, we can make the following edit to the autorun.inf file on the eTrex x2x microSD card:
| [autorun] icon=Garmin\eTrex x2x microSD.ico action=Garmin eTrex label=eTrex x2x microSD |
- Save the edited autorun.inf file.
