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USBDLM v4.3.0
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Caesar Romano
May 7, 2009, 5:59:35 AM5/7/09
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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.
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
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Wheel
May 7, 2009, 9:59:51 AM5/7/09
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Downloaded, unpacked and read .cmd, .ini, .txt and .chm files. Looks
very interesting. I'll have a go at it once I've read up a bit on NTFS
mount points and associated subjects this program deals with.
Looks like my kind of thing.
Thx for posting it.
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