You can spiff up the Briefcase icon and replace it with an icon of a metal
attache case using the following Windows NT / W2K / XP registry hack:
Hive: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
Key:
CLSID\{85BBD0920-42A0-1069-A2E4-08002B30309D}
Name: DefaultIcon
Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ
Value: %SystemRoot%\system32\syncui.dll,1 shiny metal attache
icon
Value: %SystemRoot%\system32\syncui.dll,0 default Briefcase
icon
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