You can copy and paste the USB drive shortcut to your desktop and it will work as long as the temporary drive letter doesn't change.

The temporary drive letter shouldn't change unless you plug the USB drive into a different USB port. For example, one time you plug the drive into a USB port on the left side of a laptop and the next time you plug the drive into a USB port on the right side of the laptop.

Each time you plug a device into a different USB port, Windows loads a device driver. In each case the device is identified as a "mass storage" device so it will be assigned a drive letter that has not previously been assigned. So your shortcut quits working.


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