Caesar Romano wrote:
> USBDLM v4.3.0 - 387 KB
> USB Drive Letter Manager for Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista
> as Win32 service
> USBDLM is a Windows service that gives control over Window's drive
> letter assignment for USB drives. Running as service makes it
> independent of the logged on user's privileges, so there is no need to
> give the users the privilege to change drive letters.
> It automatically solves conflicts between USB drives and network or
> subst drives of the currently logged on user.
> Furthermore you can define new default letters for USB drives and much
> more.
> When a removable drive (USB flash drive, flash card reader, portable
> hard drive) is attached for the first time, Windows mounts it to the
> first available 'local' drive letter. If there is a network share on
> this letter, Windows XP will use it anyway for the new USB drive
> because since XP network shares are specific to the current user and
> not visible in the context of the system where the letter is assigned.
> The USB drive then appears to be invisible. This is fixed by SP3 in
> most situations.
> You can change the letter assignments in the Windows Disk Management
> Console with a lot of mouse clicks but you have to do it again for
> every new device.
> And, for USB devices that have no serial number (in violation of the
> USB standards) you have to do it too when you attach it to a different
> USB port.
> USBDLM can for newly attached USB drives
> - check if the letter is used by a network share of the currently
> logged on user and assign the next letter that is really available
> - reserve letters, so they are not used for local drives
> - assign a letter from a list of new default letters, also dependent
> on many different criteria as the active user, drive type, connection
> (USB, FireWire), USB port, volume label, size and others
> - assign letters for a specific USB drive by putting an INI file on
> the drive
> - remove the drive letters of card readers until a card is inserted
> - show a balloon tip with the assigned drive letter(s)
> - define autorun events depending on many different criteria
> - many other things, see help file, available online as HTML version
> too
> All functions are applied to USB drives at the moment they are being
> attached, when the USBDLM service starts up and when a user logs on.

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> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/usbdlm.zip
> for net administrators - 474 KB:
> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/usbdlm.msi