Quick USB shortcuts?

I’ve been running into a bit of a headache with my USB drives lately. Every time I plug one in, instead of seeing my actual files, all I see is a shortcut icon appearing under my devices—and then I have to click through that shortcut just to find the actual contents of the drive.

The weird part is that this shortcut seems to "stick" to the drive itself; if I plug it into a different laptop, I run into the exact same issue. Either the drive won't open at all, or I'm once again stuck clicking through a shortcut just to get to my data.

It feels like there might be some specific setting in Windows I need to tweak to fix this behavior—does anyone know what it might be?

quietmason31 said:I’ve been running into a bit of a headache with my USB drives lately. Every time I plug one in, instead of seeing my actual files, all I see is a shortcut icon appearing under my devices—and then I have to click through that shortcut just to find the actual contents of the drive.

The weird part is that this shortcut seems to "stick" to the drive itself; if I plug it into a different laptop, I run into the exact same issue. Either the drive won't open at all, or I'm once again stuck clicking through a shortcut just to get to my data.

It feels like there might be some specific setting in Windows I need to tweak to fix this behavior—does anyone know what it might be?

You likely caught a shortcut virus. Check out this video:

goldenviper13 said:You likely caught a shortcut virus. Check out this video:

That’s probably what happened. Thanks for the heads-up!