How To Find Drives Easily with Desk Drive
One of the bigger annoyances with Windows is plugging in a USB flash drive, hearing the chime and the drive is no where to be found in My Computer. Today we will look at the free utility Desk Drive which places a shortcut for any drive on your system.
A while ago we showed you how to Find A Missing USB Drive which works perfectly, however, it can be quite tedious if you need to do it several times a day. Installing Desk Drive is quick and easy following the install wizard.
This utility is simple to use and very effective. After installation any removable drives will be detected and shortcut placed on the desktop. It sits in the taskbar and monitors for any newly added drives. You can also have the new drives open up automatically to show their content.
Click the icon to get the settings menu where you decide what drives to recognize or exclude. Desk Drive identifies DVD’s and CD’s right away as well so no more opening Windows Explorer to manually open the disk.
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Just a couple of quick notes:
Position effect - Short locus effect highlighting the position of the new drive icon on the desktop.
Minimize all windows - Minimize all windows when drive detected.
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Great idea, if only it worked. Strange problem here: running Vista Ultimate 64 and have several Sandisk flash drives that Windows only sees if I go into Computer/Manage/Disk Management and change the policies radio button on the properties. I was hoping this would work but alas no.
I set the drive letters in "disk management" then they never appear on the desktop. tried in safe mode. did restart. nothing shows for the external drives.
When you talk about drives are you also talking about drives that run other software/hardware on my PC? I need two drivers. Are drives and drivers the same thing? Let me know, I am not that computer literate.
how would we change settings if we also told it to hide the tray icon?
never mind about the last comment, I figured it out… I needed to launch the exe from the install path..
i have a gateway pc with xp sp3. it does not recognize my new toshiba usb external hdd. the hdd is recognized by my older notebook. it doesn't make sense…any ideas?