Automatically add shortcut to USB drives on Windows 7 desktop
January 26, 2010 Windows 7 Tips
I love Windows 7 I am totally in love. I think that I could marry Windows 7 if it were a person. I have learnt a wonderful trick which is that I am able to add the computer name to the 
taskbar in order to making it easier to identify which computer I am.
It is very simple and useful. If I add the computer name to the Windows 7 taskbar, then I find that this really helps me in terms of knowing which computer I am working on. I was wondering if anybody out there would like to know how to setup the computer name on Your Windows task bar?
This list is actually automatically generated based on the type of content which is stored on your USB drive. This is great if you really use one of those options, but what if you always choose “Open folder to view files” or what if you disabled Autoplay? Then what?
Now what happens is that, starting with Windows Vista and on, Autoplay is now disabled by default because of the viruses and spyware that spread using this feature. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could plug in your drive and just have a link to it show up on your desktop instead of having to manually go to My Computer?
Desktop Media is a wonderful user friendly program that will automatically add drive icons to your desktop when you plug in a USB drive or removable drive.
The program runs in the system tray and you can right-click on it to access the options:
In the options dialog, you can select which shortcuts you want to appear on the desktop and which drives to ignore that you do not want to show at all.
This is a very useful program and I hope that everyone uses it and appreciates it, just as much as I do.
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