Unlike Windows USB Safely Remove displays real device names, given by a
device manufacturer.
Moreover when you have several devices of the same type or manufacturer has given
an "obscure" name to a device you might wish and you may assign to devices more
intelligible for you names.
Also to make the device recognition even more faster you can assign to the
device an icon from the program package or load your custome one (the most common
image formats are supported: JPG, PNG, ICO, BMP and etc.)
When you have several external drives with identical names, you may prefer
USB Safely Remove to display automatically drives' volume labels instead of
device names. To do it enable "Display volume names instead of device names"
check box at the "General" tab of the options.
You can rename a device or change its icon in
the device properties dialog.
See below step-by-step manuals on how to do it.
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Call the device properties dialog:
Right click to the device in the stop menu and select "Device properties" item.
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In the displayed device properties window enter a new name into the "USB Device Name" field.
In order to return the previous (standard) device name, just clear
"USB Device Name" field.
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Press "Ok" button.
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Call the device properties dialog (see above) and press "Change" button
under the device image.
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Just right click with mouse to an appropriate for you.
Then press "Ok" button in the device properties dialog to save changes.
If you are not satisfied with the supplied icon set, you can load your own icon.
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Call the device properties dialog (see above) and press "Change" button
under the device image.
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Press "Load custom image" button at the bottom of the select icon window.
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In the displayed open file dialog choose an image you are interested in.
The program will scale an image to the required sizes automatically and
add it to the internal storage.
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Then simply left click with mouse on the newly added icon:
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Press "Ok" to save changes in the device properties dialog.
Unfortunately, the current version (4.0) removes alpha-channel (transparency)
from PNG images when it loads external images to the internal storage.
Despite this you can load images with transparency by a direct adding an
image to the internal storage.
The internal image storage in the program actually is a sub-folder USBImages
of the program folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\USB Safely Remove\USBImages).
Each icon in this folder is stored as 2 files with different
resolutions: 32x32 and 16x16. The files are named in this way:
- Image 32x32: <image name<_large.png
- Image 16x16: <image name<_small.png
Where "image name" is the name that will be displayed in the choose image dialog in the
program. "image name" must be same for both large and small icon.
- Create 2 copies of the image with resolutions 32x32 and 16x16
- Name this copies according to the rules above. For example:
- "my device_large.png" (for 32x32 image)
- "my device_small.png" (for 16x16 image)
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Copy these images to the "USBImages" subfolder of the porgram e.g.
C:\Program Files\USB Safely Remove\USBImages)
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Restart the program, enter to the device properties and select
your newly added icon among other images. For the example given above
the image will be named "my device".
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