Removable Drive Icon in 'My Computer'

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Hi all,

Manier times I use USB drives to transfer data. I always get a question while doing this. Which part / program within MS Windows brings up icon on “My Computer” whenever any USB mass storage device is connected? I have basic knowldge of WDM but I really failed to search answer of this question. I tried to use filemon, processmon to find the processing of this action.

How exactly this icon comes in “My Computer” whenever we connect the device?

I am sorry if the question sounds stupid, but please let me know if anyone knows how it works.

Thanks,

Yogi

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It is MountMgr.sys who catches the partition arrival notification and
creates the drive letter for it.

Then shell32.dll refreshes the My Computer view if any, I don’t know the
details about this mechanism.

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> Hi all,
>
> Manier times I use USB drives to transfer data. I always get a question while
doing this. Which part / program within MS Windows brings up icon on “My
Computer” whenever any USB mass storage device is connected? I have basic
knowldge of WDM but I really failed to search answer of this question. I tried
to use filemon, processmon to find the processing of this action.
>
> How exactly this icon comes in “My Computer” whenever we connect the device?
>
> I am sorry if the question sounds stupid, but please let me know if anyone
knows how it works.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yogi
>