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Desk Drive
Desk Drive

Desk Drive is a handy software that adds convenient shortcuts to USB thumb drives, removable drives and DVDs to your desktop. When you first insert a USB drive or DVD, the Windows autoplay feature wi ...

Average of 4 user ratings: 3
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  • Jan 11, 2009
  • For version:
  • 1.7

quote  PC got too sluggish  quote

  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 3
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 3
  • Overall: 2

This is a program I looked forward to using, but sadly, it was just too 'heavy' on my R31 ThinkPad, XP Pro, Pent3, SP2, .NET 2.0. Pc got too sluggish and each time I tried to use the Tray icon's Menu, the Program crashed! I'm thinking of downloading v1.7 but I noticed its KBs are even larger :( O Well.. there must be another drive detector out there just waiting for me to give it a happy home :)

user Review by: GinnaBL (5)
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  • Nov 01, 2008
  • For version:
  • 1.6.8

quote  A minor convenience  quote

  • Interface: 3
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 2
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

It works well for me (XP Pro/SP3). I use it to quickly create and delete shortcuts to both USB and shared drives, which I allocate and deallocate frequently. Documentation of the options would be helpful. A suprising annoyance is tha I have to manually exit the program to shutdown my system. It's convenient in a small way, and the shutdown problem detracts from its value.

user Review by: Harlan (16)
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  • Oct 17, 2008
  • For version:
  • 1.6.6

quote  Wasn't impressed  quote

  • Interface: 1
  • Features: 1
  • Ease of use: 1
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 2

First of all, it installed fine, nice little icon, etc... but when I tried to plug anything in, including 2 USB thumbs, 1 gig PNY, 4 gig Sandisk, and 256 Impact, one DVD Iomega, not a one of them were detected. Windows detected them, bypassed Desk Drive, nothing. I did a restart, I know how apps can be, still nothing so finally uninstalled, reinstalled, then finally, just uninstalled.

user Review by: gimpguy (370)
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  • Jun 29, 2008
  • For version:
  • 1.1

quote  Unusual idea  quote

  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 2
  • Ease of use: 2
  • Value: 2
  • Overall: 2

This worked OK for USB flash drives, but did not automatically detect the DVD-ROM drive. Not everyone may need this feature, but it is worth a look.

user Review by: ianmacm (99)
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