Start with Windows? Resource usage? Vista feature replaced?
Posted: Aug 11th, 2011, 6:33 pm
Running Vista w/SP 2, 32-bit.
I just began using USB Safely Remove 4.7.1.1153 - seems to do an excellent job. My USB hard drive, used a few times a week, is a Western Digital 500 GB. It's always been troublesome to disconnect before. Vista's built-in, Safely Remove Hardware, almost never succeeded with this particular external hard drive. Not a complaint unique to me, of course. Unlock sometimes worked, and another 3rd party software pretty much failed.
To my untrained eye, according to the task manager it seems as if USB Safely Remove uses resources sparingly. That's compared with, say, Firefox, explorer.exe, or Avast. So allowing USB Safely Remove to always run wouldn't be slowing things down noticeably - is that a reasonable expectation?
If not, I'd rather not choose the 'Run on Windows startup' option. (Currently the option is on.)
Vista's Safely Remove Hardware icon has vanished from the system tray. It's not hidden; it's just not there. So has Safely Remove Hardware been replaced? Disabled? Is there something further I should do about this unreliable built-in?
I just began using USB Safely Remove 4.7.1.1153 - seems to do an excellent job. My USB hard drive, used a few times a week, is a Western Digital 500 GB. It's always been troublesome to disconnect before. Vista's built-in, Safely Remove Hardware, almost never succeeded with this particular external hard drive. Not a complaint unique to me, of course. Unlock sometimes worked, and another 3rd party software pretty much failed.
To my untrained eye, according to the task manager it seems as if USB Safely Remove uses resources sparingly. That's compared with, say, Firefox, explorer.exe, or Avast. So allowing USB Safely Remove to always run wouldn't be slowing things down noticeably - is that a reasonable expectation?
If not, I'd rather not choose the 'Run on Windows startup' option. (Currently the option is on.)
Vista's Safely Remove Hardware icon has vanished from the system tray. It's not hidden; it's just not there. So has Safely Remove Hardware been replaced? Disabled? Is there something further I should do about this unreliable built-in?