How do you access your USB device after connecting it with the Windows system? All Windows user have to access or open the Windows explorer (or File Explorer in Windows 8) to see the drives listed in there. In other words, to open USB or any other removable drives connected to Windows one have to open windows explorer and then go to the drives. But there is an easy way to access the USB drives more easily and quickly by creating a shortcut for the plugged in devices. In this tutorial we will be discussing about how to create shortcuts for USB drives inserted or mounted on Windows desktop.
To open or access the removal drives you need to navigate to explorer, this can be irritating if the explorer is slow. However, Windows offers Auto-play feature, but this feature is recommended to be disabled as it forms the easy gateway for malware and virus. We will be discussing about interesting utility tools that can easily let you access USB by creating a shortcut for the USB or removable drives on the desktop as soon as you plug-in the device.
USB Extension
USB Extension is free, simple, easy to use utility software that allows auto creation of shortcuts for USB drives. Simply install the freeware and insert USB to your system. The program starts scanning for any removable drives connected to Windows PC and detects as soon as it finds one. Once it detects the removable drive or USB, it automatically creates a shortcut for it. So, you can now easily access USB device straight from the desktop itself. You will no longer have to navigate to Windows File Explorer to access your USB devices.
Once you have completed your task with USB, you can unplug it. With the removal of USB drive, the shortcut also gets removed. It also search and removes old and unused shortcuts.
Salient Features of USB Extension
Auto Detection of removable or USB drives
Auto creation of shortcuts on desktop
It is Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 x32-64.
Auto creation of shortcuts on desktop
It is Compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 x32-64.
Desk Drive
To solve the irritating process of navigating to Windows explorer to access USB or removable drives, Desk Driveprovides an easy and quick solution. It creates a desktop shortcut for the plugged-in USB automatically.
It is simple, free, and effective. Moreover it sits silently on the notification or system tray and operates on detecting USB. But, it eats up a space up to 15MB on system hard drive and also requires Microsoft .Net Framework.
Desktop Media
Desktop Media is an alternate to Desk Drive but it consumes less memory space on HDD. This utility is free and detects all supported removable drives like USB, CD/DVD, and RAM disk drives connected to Windows. It creates shortcuts and also has the ability to retain positions of the icons on desktop if only the removable drive is connected.
Often it has been noticed that Explorer takes much time to detect the plugged USB or for assigning a name to the inserted media. So, why waste time in waiting for the explorer to open instead use any of the freeware here and create shortcut for the plugged-in USB automatically.
So, if you want to access removable drives or USB directly from the Desktop, try any of the software discussed here to create a shortcut for USB to easily access them.
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