DvPlacer

Although you don’t necessarily access root of drives and partitions that often, it’s a good idea to have a shortcut at hand, especially for removable storage devices. In this regard, DvPlacer comes with the means to help you access any storage device connected to your computer with a single mouse click.

You’re free to launch the application from the moment download is finished, because it doesn’t take you through a setup process to enable functionality. This means it can easily be carried around on a thumb drive so you can use in on both your home, and work computers. Registry entries remain intact, so the target PC’s stability is not affected.

The application spends most of its time in the system tray area. However, the main window is made visible right from the start, and when not used, you can send it to the tray area. Unfortunately, minimizing it needs to be done from the tray area, because the main windows isn’t fitted with a dedicated button, and pressing the available “X” closes it completely.

When active, the compact main window shows all drives and partitions on your computer. External storage devices, like USB flash drives are also displayed. Real time scanning of ports makes the main window show newly connected drives as soon as they’re plugged in. There’s also a related options which automatically brings up the navigation panel upon connection, if minimized.

Sadly, you need to know what types of drives you have connected according to the associated letter, because drive tag is not shown, nor the possibility to enable it. What you do get to see apart from letter is a standard icon, not the assigned one, and a slider with free space. You can make it run with Windows from the options menu to skip manual copy of the shortcut to the Startup folder.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that DvPlacer allows you to access all internal, or external storage devices directly from your desktop, with a simple mouse click. Sure enough the main window is visually appealing, but it could have used a few more details, such as drive tag, or option to stay on top of every other window.