Comments on: Desk Drive: get automatic drive/media shortcuts on your desktop

By: Crear ícono en el escritorio cuando se conecte una unidad extraible

Crear ícono en el escritorio cuando se conecte una unidad extraible — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:58:53 +0000

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By: Get Drive Shortcuts on Your Windows Desktop

Get Drive Shortcuts on Your Windows Desktop — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:13:14 +0000

[...] Desk Drive [via Freeware Genius] [...]

By: Aplicación para PC: detecta unidad extraíble y pone un icono en tu escritorio | SomosPC

Thu, 29 May 2008 18:49:47 +0000

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By: El Computador - Costa Rica

El Computador - Costa Rica — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:20:35 +0000

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By: Pon automaticamente un icono en tu escritorio cuando conectes una unidad extraible con Desk Drive

Tue, 27 May 2008 17:32:42 +0000

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By: Review & Download Link | Desktop Media: get automatic desktop shortcuts when you plug in your USB drive or other mediafreewaregenius.com

Tue, 27 May 2008 16:23:54 +0000

[...] program is similar to the afore-mentioned "Desk Drive" in that it aims to provide the user with automatic shortcuts to their USB and other drives [...]

By: Desk Drive Creates Desktop Shortcuts to Your Removable Media « Unleash your inner geek

Tue, 27 May 2008 01:19:31 +0000

[...] “Windows only: Freeware application Desk Drive monitors your computer for new media—like a new CD, DVD, or thumb drive—then automatically creates a desktop shortcut pointing to your newly mounted media. Disabling autoplay is safer and less annoying than leaving it enabled, but that means you have to open up My Computer every time you plug in a thumb drive or insert a new disc. Desk Drive gives you quick and easy access to that media from your desktop as soon as you plug it in, similar to the default (and arguably better) behavior found on Macs. The downside: Desk Drive takes up way too much memory (around 17MB in my test), so it may not be worth it unless you’ve got boatloads of RAM.” Desk Drive [Blue Onion via FreewareGenius] [...]

By: Desk Drive Creates Desktop Shortcuts to Your Removable Media « Unleash your inner geek

Tue, 27 May 2008 01:19:31 +0000

By: cyke64

cyke64 — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:49:24 +0000

Hello ,

Your site is the best for finding good freewares !
But there’s a better alternative for detecting automatically USB drives : USBLDM
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

USBDLM is Freeware for private and educational (schools, colleges, universities) use only.

USBDLM can for newly attached USB drives

* check if the letter is used by a network share of the currently logged on user and assign the next letter that is really available
* reserve letters, so they are not used for local drives
* assign a letter from a list of new default letters, also dependent on many different criteria as the active user, drive type, connection (USB, FireWire), USB port, volume label, size and others
* assign letters for a specific USB drive by putting an INI file on the drive
* remove the drive letters of card readers until a card is inserted
* show a balloon tip with the assigned drive letter(s)
* define autorun events depending on many different criteria
* many other things, see help file, available online as HTML version too

All functions are applied to USB drives at the moment they are being attached, when the USBDLM service starts up and when a user logs on.

USBDLM runs as Win32 service under Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista. 64 Bit versions are untested but should work too.

Not free memory consumed this time

Best regards
Cyke64 (freeware fanatics !)

By: » Access DVD or USB Drive from Automatic desktop icon

» Access DVD or USB Drive from Automatic desktop icon — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:18:50 +0000

[...] drive or media shortcut on your desktop. Simple, easy and of course less clicks involved. [via freeware [...]

By: Paul A.

Paul A. — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:48:15 +0000

My black and whit Mac Plus,did this 20 years ago!

By: Automatically Add Media Shortcuts To Your Desktop

Automatically Add Media Shortcuts To Your Desktop — Sun, 25 May 2008 06:00:40 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:22:11 +0000

Try opening the settings dialogs and then dismissing it. Memory usage drops to about 1.7 MB on my machine.

.NET programs exhibit different memory usage than normal programs so the memory use can be a bit misleading.

By: .::virtualizado::.» Blog Archive » Desk Drive - monta unidades extraíbles igual que en Linux

Fri, 23 May 2008 19:49:08 +0000

[...] El veredicto: Si bien el uso de memoria es un poco desconsiderado, es un interesante programa que podría ser muy útil para algunos usuarios. Sólo debes ponderar los costos y beneficios: el grado de utilidad práctica frente a la memoria disponible (yo tengo 1GB de RAM y no me causa problemas). Fuente: http://www.freewaregenius.com/ [...]

By: Rarst

Rarst — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:56:09 +0000

1. Assign permanent drive letter to flash drive.
2. Create shortcut.

Cuts need for framework, 3rd party utility and 18 Mb of memory.

By: fak3r

fak3r — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:38:24 +0000

wow, that sounds like a good deal of memory for not much return. Incidentally, Gnome (and I think KDE) do this by default in Linux, and now I can’t live without it, seeing as how I now have a least a 1Gig thumb drive behind my work badge all the time – it’s very helpful. Also in Linux I now use sshfs – which allows you to add a shortcut to your desktop that is a folder on a remote server over ssh – the FUSE based sshfs system keeps it connected so it’s just like using a local folder. Cuts down on having to ’scp -r’ stuff all over the place too!

fak3r