i have a USB flash drive and an ipod.
when i plug in my ipod, it comes up on my desktop as an ipod.
when i plug in the flash drive, it comes up on my desktop as - an ipod.
they both use an extended USB cable i have (g: drive)
i was wondering if there was a way to configure avedesk to tell the difference between the two (i only have one plugged in at a time)
I think that its not posible since AveDesk only read the directory you point the desklet to (in this case G:), it doesnt read the device ID that is conected to your PC, maybe you can make two shortcuts with diferent Paths (ex: G: & F) and configure Windows XP to asing diferent letters to each device.
Well I have the same setup and mine get differentiated, even when only one is plugged in. Not sure what I did to make that happen.
lol.... I know this is kinda simple, with a little workaround.....
Whip up a icon for each of ur devide.. (iPod/USB flashDrive) and create a file called Autorun.inf
with following text inside
[autorun]icon=whatevername.ico // change whatevername.ico to ur icon filename
now place this autorun.inf and icon file in root folder of ur device.
Next.... the pidlshortcut that use in Avedesk, confgure it to show system icon !! and it will show the icon of ur device from autorun.inf (whichever icon u put in ur device's root folder with autorun.inf)
That's pretty clever igo, I hadn't though of that. Thanks for the help 
How do you get such an autorun.inf to work on a usb drive? It doesn't work on mine and everything I've found so far says that autorun.inf files only work on drives with removable media such as CDs and Zip drives.
EDIT: Well, it does work if I double-click the drive in explorer, but doesn't work when the drive is inserted. Not really a good way to make an icon if you have to double click the drive in explorer to make it work.
well, there's one simple solution, but i can't say for sure that the ipod icon will show/hide on device connect/disconnect:
1. create a new PidlShortcut
2. go to the shortcut tab of the desklet properties
3. open the My Computer window
4. drag the My Computer iPod device into the path filed
if the ipod is mounted as a drive, then there's nothing you can do at the moment, except looking into the registry and find the device address yourself
then put it into the path filed should look something like:
;;{DEVICE_TYPE}devid:{DEVICE_ID}DEVICE_LOCATION:
you have below my digital camera shortcut for example:
;;{E211B736-43FD-11D1-9EFB-0000F8757FCD}devid:{6BDD1FC6-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}0001:
i had the same problem. here's what i did:
- connect the usb drive
- go to computer management (contol panel > admin tools > computer management)
- select storage > disk management
- right click the usb drive and change its drive letter
- in avedesk, create a new pidl pointing to the drive letter you just assigned
@abman: I wonder why isn't it automatically happening with u.. since it should work, cause so far on all systems I've done it.. it works cool. Maybe u need to check some settings regarding Autorun behaviour in ur system.
@Ivan: That's what I had done before, but then some programs (like alcohol) would change the driver letters. That's why I tried that Autorun stuff and it worked like charm. I use it even on my cellphone (k750i's memory stick)..
i dont understand, when i attached all my usb devices together it assigned them a letter from h-j
next time i attach them they retain this letter, what is the problem for you guys?
@Slewed: Try changing the ports next time while attaching all your USB devices... and infact even, try changing the order you will attach them... 
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