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Is there way to automatically display connected mass storage devices on the Windows desktop, like most Unix-based operating systems are doing?

I didn't find any native ways to do that, but maybe there are some third-party tools to add that feature.

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DeskDrive

Desk Drive™ solves a really annoying problem. You pop a USB thumb drive or DVD into your computer and then you have to open Window's Explorer and find the mapped drive or folder. Desk Drive adds a desktop icon pointing to the drive automatically. Remove the media and the shortcut goes away. Brilliantly simple and effective.

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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.

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  • Desktop media simply don't work for me, don't know why, maybe because it's outdated and don't work with windows seven. But Desk Drive does the job, thanks.
    – dns13
    Oct 25, 2010 at 19:54
  • But DeskDrive is a little buggy when sometimes not allowing to unmount removable media :/
    – kokbira
    Dec 29, 2014 at 10:54
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    – kokbira
    Aug 31, 2015 at 17:54

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