Whenever you insert your USB drive into your computer, Windows shows the Autorun dialog box and asks you "What do you want Windows to do?". But the Autorun dialog box is shown only once and if you close it, you'll need to manually open the drive from My Computer.
Consider a situation when you disabled "Autorun" feature to prevent virus infection. Again you'll need to manually open the drive from My Computer.
Wouldn't it be great and easier if you can add a shortcut to your USB drive on Desktop so that you can easily and quickly open the drive?
Today we are sharing 2 FREE utilities which can add shortcuts to USB drives, CD/DVD drives, hard drives, network drives and RAM disk drives.
1. Desktop Media:
Desktop Media is small application for Windows (any flavor) that automatically adds drive icons to your desktop. It will detect USB drives, fixed drives (ie. your hard drives), CD/DVD drives, network drives, and even RAM disk drives. For removable media (such as USB drives and CD/DVD drives), it will only add the drive to your desktop if it is present. So if you have a CD/DVD drive, but no disc is present, you won't see the icon on your desktop.
Features List:
- Automatically detects new (or existing) media and adds the icons to your desktop.
- Has the ability to create soft links (shortcuts) or hard links (symbolic links).
- Supports removable, fixed, network, CD/DVD, and RAM disk drives.
- Ability to ignore user-specified drive letters.
- Has the option to save the positions of the icons.
You can access it settings using its system tray icon:
You can select which drives shortcuts you want to show on Desktop. You can even select drives to ignore so that Desktop Media doesn't create their shortcuts on Desktop.
2. Desk Drive:
Desk Drive is another similar software which does the same job. It adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically. Remove the media and the shortcut goes away.
It also shows the drive size as you can see in the screenshot:
You can access its settings using its system tray icon as usual:
Similar to Desktop Media, you can select which drives shortcuts you want to show and which you want to hide.
This article was posted in Software Zone, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
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Dan
Desktop Media is much better, I've tried both of them and had much more success with Desktop Media.
VM
Good, stay with it... Vishal knows what he post, thank's VG for sharing this program with us i love it
I am so sorry if i write wrong but i am from greece and my age is too smal to know good the language..i hope you understand what i mean
Muhammad Najem
Thanks a lot Vishal
it's so awesome !!
keep on the good work !
VM
I apologise for my last commend..now i realised that both of desktop media and desk drive are in this post
Azziz
Nice and useful tips, Does it recognize all sized memory cards and also USB keys!
VG
^^ Almost all.
BladeCut Final
These two gadgets were Supremely Awesome!
Thanks for informing us about it, sir.
God bless always