DesktopMedia

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.09
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 15 April 2026
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NAME

DesktopMedia - automatically add/remove icons for removable drives on desktop

 

SYNOPSIS

WA2LWinTools/bin/DesktopMedia [ -h | -i | -u | -V ]

DesktopMedia

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

 

DESCRIPTION

An application that automatically adds drive icons to your desktop as drives are inserted.

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.

Features:

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Automatically detects new (or existing) media and adds the icons to your desktop.

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Has the ability to create soft links (shortcuts) or hard links (symbolic links).

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Supports removable, fixed, network, CD/DVD, and RAM disk drives.

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Ability to ignore user-specified drive letters. Has the option to save the positions of the icons.

 

OPTIONS

-h
usage message.

-i
install the DesktopMedia command to 'Startup' in the Windows Start Menu.

-u
uninstall the DesktopMedia shortcut from 'Startup' in the Windows Start Menu.

-V
print program version.


 

 

ENVIRONMENT

-

 

EXIT STATUS

0
no error.

4
usage message displayed.

5
version message displayed.

 

FILES

etc/DesktopMedia.cfg
configuration file of DesktopMedia.

 

EXAMPLES

-

 

SEE ALSO

wintoolsintro(1), config(1m), desktopicon(1), desktopok(1), shortcuts(1)

 

NOTES

parts of tis manual page were extracted from the web pages https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=4548 and https://web.archive.org/web/20160115132906/http://www.ianandmonica.com/desktopmedia/.

 

BUGS

-

 

AUTHOR

DesktopMedia was developed by Ian Perez and integrated into WA2L/WinTools Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports regarding the integration to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2026 Christian Walther

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
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Time: 22:11:29 GMT, April 15, 2026