Blog

Do you want to have quicker access to your system drive (or partitions), USB Drive or SD Card directly from your desktop? In this tutorial I will show you how to use a small Windows application to show fixed drives (such as C: drive) as well as removal drives (such as a USB drive or SD card) on your desktop.

To get started follow the steps below.

Step 1: First, download Desktop Media 1.7 from the publisher website. Once the download is complete, unpack the file somewhere in your computer and install it.

Step 2: Once the installation is finished, a Desktop Media icon will appear in your system tray.

Step 3: Once you insert a USB drive, SD Card, CD/DVD disk, network drives, etc… an icon of that drive will automatically appear on your desktop. Double click on that icon and the drive will open.

Step 4: If you wish to customize Desktop Media, right click on its icon located in the Windows system tray, and from the context menu choose Options.

Step 5: When new window opens up select Fixed which will also show icons of your fixed drives, such as your C:/ drive.

Step 6: You can also Select drives which you want to ignore.

Step 7: Once you are done with customization’s click OK to save your changes.

Hope you found this tutorial helpful.

[ttjad keyword=”windows-tablet”]