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The main disadvantage of using built-in Windows safe removal tool is that in case
of having several hot-plug devices it is quite difficult to recognize a
needed to stop device - the most devices have the same name - "USB mass
storage device". In addition, Windows does not let you hide a device you
would not want to stop from the menu.
USB Safely Remove saves you from these problems and offers an original and
multifunctional stopping menu, which displays actual device names with icons.
Using this menu you can find and stop a device in a snap!
Also this menu allows to:
Ever encountered the situation when Windows does not allow you to remove
a device? Unlike Windows, USB Safely Remove
will show you programs which prevent the device from being
stopped and let you close these programs or just files they opened on
the device.
Like to do everything using the keyboard? Now you can stop and view devices
with only ONE hotkey! No need to remember keyboard shortcuts for each device.
Being in any application, press the key combination (Win+S by default) and
you will see the stop menu. Use the Up\Down Arrow keys to select the device
you need and either press Enter to stop it or Ctrl+B to view the contents
of the device disks. Also you can assign a dedicated hotkey to stop a certain device.
Another USB Safely Remove feature that distinguishes it from similar software
is starting any applications not only after connecting a device, but
also before removing it. The autorun feature allows you to set up data backup
before disconnecting a removable hard drive, to run Total Commander with the
contents of the pen-drive, automatically unmount an
encrypted TrueCrypt drive before disconnecting the USB media, etc.
USB Safely Remove has a powerful and convenient command line: usr.exe. It
allows you to automate work with any devices. For example, you can
automatically stop devices according to schedule or in case of any other event.
In addition the command line tool of "USB Safely Remove" allows to "return
device back".
Another important difference between the program and the standard Safely
Remove Hardware icon is the possibility to see and stop any kinds of
hotplug devices. If USB Safely Remove does not display the device you need,
try enabling the "Display all storage devices" checkbox in the
program options.
Some kinds of external devices (e.g. SATA drives from Silicon Image),
are true hot-plug devices, however their drivers does not support "safe removal"
function. Such devices are not displayed in native safe removal tool and can
be stopped only via disabling in Device Manager. It is a tiresome way,
because it requires many actions to do, moreover you must enable the device
manually after you connect it next time.
USB Safely Remove allows to stop even such devices, besides it detects
automatically what devices must be "safely removed" and what must be "disabled".
Also the program enables "disabled" device automatically on its next
connection, thus it makes working with the device absolutely the same
as with usual device.
If you had safely removed a card reader, you would need to physically
reconnect it in order to make it work with cards again (or to use
"Return device back" feature of the program).
In case of 2 or more memory cards connected to the card reader at the same time,
they all became unavailable in the system after you stop the card reader.
USB Safely Remove lets you to eject memory cards one-by-one. Moreover, if the
memory card was locked by any processes, the program would display you these
"locking" processes as well as it does on failure to stop a whole device.
Do you have a card reader with several slots? If you said "yes", you would
likely use only one memory card at a time, however your card reader
creates up to 4 drives in your system. It may be annoying because you are required
to spend more time finding the memory card drive among other "empty" card
reader drives.
USB Safely Remove gets rid you of this problem - the program can hide
"empty" card reader drives automatically!
After you had stopped the device, but still did not unplug it, sometimes it is
quite useful to return it back into the system. For example if you remembered
that you forgot to write a file to the external drive. In order to do it, you have to
physically reconnect the device, however sometimes it's quite inconvenient to
do, e.g. if the device is connected to the rear panel of the computer.
USB Safely Remove is the first Windows program that allows you to return stopped
device back!
Other optional features:
-
System tray icon hiding when there are no devices to be stopped
- Displaying volume labels instead of device names
- Let you manage drive letters
- Ability to mount storage devices as a NTFS folder
- Exploring device drives in an alternative file manager (e.g. Total Commander)
- Let you prevent Windows from assigning a specified drive letters to hot-plug devices
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