Help Your Lost USB Drive Get Home
Here’s a real handy way to help your lost USB drive find its way home.
Daily Cup of Tech gives us some simple files to put on your USB drives to encourage people to return it.
Download this ZIP file and unzip it to the root of your USB drive. Edit readme.txt with a nice note encouraging the finder to return the drive to you. Unplug the drive and plug it back in.
You (and everyone else) will get this Auto Play menu.
Clicking OK or double clicking the drive in My Computer will result in the Help.exe program displaying your text from readme.txt, thanks to the autorun.inf file.(Note: If your drive already has an AutoRun.inf file, compare the two and add what is needed.)
What other steps can someone take to ensure the safe return of their portable drives? Let us know in the comments.