USB Safely Remove is a handy replacement for the standard 'Safely Remove Hardware' tool. It does everything the default one does and yet it offers more. The default tool that comes with Windows XP requires several clicks before a safe unplug can be performed. If you have several hotplug such as USB, SATA and firewire you may need to take a closer look at which device you try to unplug from because it doesn't show the name of devices in the list but only names them according to driver alphabets.
With USB Safely Remove, it will make life easier and save time. The unplug is done with only 1 click. The USB connections are named according to their actual device names, thus make the unplug process almost instant without the need to scrutinize which USB connections belong to which devices.
Apart from that, it allows you to hide devices so that you don't accidentally stop them and provides you with keyboard shortcut to perform stopping action. When the USB connection cannot be unplugged it will tell you what application that keeps stopping the USB connection from being unplugged. The following points summarize why it does much better than the standard tool.
The ability to hide any device from the 'stop' menu.
Uses real device names and allows renaming.
Keyboard shortcuts for easy device stopping.
Unique menu for one-click stop.
Programs autorun on device plugging/unplugging.
It tells you why a device cannot be stopped immediately.
For $20 you can get the full version but suffice to say, the free version itself is more than enough. Visit USB Safely Remove for more information.
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Sounds impressive. Giving it a try right now.
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You should Rakshit :)
This works wonders for those drive icons that seem to remain after you have unplugged flash drives. I just tried it and it worked. Thanks!