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Name: brickwood Date: January 1, 2007 at 01:32:44 Pacific OS: vista CPU/Ram: N/A Product: my own custom rig
Comment:
sup... anyone no if u can make it so a temporary icon of an external memory device u just plugged in can pop-up on the desktop while its in use like in mac osx? jus one feature id like to have...
Name: Bryco Date: January 5, 2007 at 07:33:17 Pacific
Reply:
While the device is connected and using Windows Explorer, right click on the drive's icon and drag it to the desktop, release the mouse button and select "Create shortcut here".
Naturally, the icon will only work if the device is connected and assigned the same drive letter.
Bryan
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Name: brickwood Date: January 12, 2007 at 07:45:36 Pacific
Reply:
thanks heaps for the input and the thought had occured to me.. though id be more interested in an app for the job.
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