April 26th, 2012· The program device scanning mechanism was optimized for speed. Now the program scans for hardware changes more quick while loads the system less.
· Correct version info added to all program modules
· The "Apply" button in the options is enabled only if you change some settings
· Bug fixed: Command line "forcedstop" command didn't work
· Some small memory leaks. Fixed, now everything is dry :)
· Bug fixed: The program could hang on device insertion in some cases
· Bug fixed: The "Apply" button in the options may not apply changes in some cases
· Bug fixed: Autorun doesn't run some DOS commands (e.g. pause, net)
· Bug fixed: An error might happen after device settings export
April 26th, 2012The new stopping menu:
· The stopping menu was reworked to give you more convenience and control, especially when you have many drives. Now it's more informative and powerful like the menu in Zentimo but we tried to make it as simple as possible. Anyway there's always the options to return the look and feel of 4.x versions if you prefer it.
Full Unicode support:
· Now you can choose any language supported by the program and it will be displayed correctly even if your system language is different. This is great news for people who are using non-Latin characters on their computers since they will never have issues with garbled texts in the program. If you are an English-speaking user you get no benefits from this feature... apart from you may have fun changing the program language to Arabic or Chinese. They look so cool :)
"Apply" button:
· Using this button in the device properties or program options dialogs you can apply the changed settings and see how they influence the program without closing the options dialog
New options:
· We analyzed your requests and added many options to configure the menu you asked us about. Now you can change the device icon size, hide or display storage device names or volume rows and etc. Those who have many storage devices might like these options since they let them reduce the space that the menu occupies on the screen.
Other improvements & changes:
· Improved "Forced stop" feature. It unload dlls loaded from external drives without killing their processes
· Added an option to return in use the fixed drive letters even if their drives are not connected now (Options -> Drive Letters -> Fixed Drive Letters List)
· All other skins look and feel was also improved
· Device icon storing format changed from .png to .ico
· The program might not see devices connected to some kinds of external USB hubs. Fixed.
· Windows 2000 is no longer supported
August 5th, 2011Device menu default skin improved:
· Did some minor changes to make it looking more attractive, especially in Windows 7
· Close button is added to our balloon notifications
· Choose device icon dialog became resizeable
Bug fixes:
· Devices connected to external USB hubs might get duplicated in the device menu
· Sometimes a service connection error displayed on Windows startup
· An awkward message was displayed when you attempt to load an image with unsupported format to assign to the device
· The system tray icon might not display even if there are devices to be stopped
· Autorun feature. The %PhysicalDeviceName% command line now contains a correct value (thus allowing you to operate e.g. TrueCrypted partitions)
· Icons in the main program menu were accidentally removed in the previous version
· There was no notification on card reader memory card disconnection
June 27th, 2011· Skins support
· Option to install for all users
· Ability to clear all settings on uninstall
· Partial support for Windows high DPI setting
· New notification balloons
· Smart device menu displaying on mouse hover
· Improved device icon auto assigning
Bug fixes:
· The program recognized some external drives as "Composite USB device" and didn’t see their drive letters.
· The program didn't rememeber chosen installation language
· Incorrect number of devices in the "hidden devices" link were displayed when there are more than 10 devices
· Double click to the systray icon caused an error
· Global autorun setup: Test launch of the process wasn't available for devices with more than one drive letters
· Duplicate icons were added on addition of a new icon to device library
· An error caused on attempt to fix "empty" drive letter
· An error caused on attempt to load non existent settings file
January 28th, 2011· Feature to save settings to file \ load settings from file added
· New option: Hotkey to stop all devices at once
· Option to close autorun process before device stopping added
· Device icon library was renewed and extended
· Language packs updated
· Manual reference updated
December 25th, 2010· Redesigned Icon
· A little but nice improvement: we reworked our good old (but a bit outdated) icon that we had been using for several years, made it modern and more noticeable in the system tray. Hope you will like it.
· ClearType And System Font Support
· Now all USB Safely Remove's dialogs, including device menu, are displayed with a currently selected theme font with ClearType support if you enabled it.
· Spinning down drivers after stopping in Vista & Win 7
· When you safely remove the device in Windows XP it powers the device off – in case of a flash drive its led was switched off and in case of a portable hard drive it was spun down. But Microsoft changed this behavior in Vista and it still exists in Win 7: after you stop the device on these OSes the hard drive continue spinning and flash drive continue lighting. All modern hard drives park theirs heads automatically when you unplug them so in theory this behavior shouldn’t lead to data looses or drive damages. But in practice the hard drive usually sound strangely when you unplug them on run and this makes a hard drive owner being a bit nervous when he hears that
· USB Safely Remove can change this behavior and make the system to power down USB ports. In order to enable this feature just answer "Yes, please" when USB Safely Remove suggests you to enable it.
· Or go to the program settings and enable "Power off the device..." feature
· Bug fixes and other improvements
· Fixed: Native Windows Safely Remove Hardware icon could appear in the tray
· Fixed: Card reader menu were displayed partially outside the screen if the taskbar is on the left of the screen
· Fixed: Compatibilty with Windows 2000 restored
· Option to not show the "Stop All" warning again added
· Bosnian translation added
· Some other UI improvements and non-significant bug-fixes
December 8th, 2010· The version contains some minor bug-fixes and improvements, besides it contains one important thing: the ability to power off devices on stopping in Vista and Windows 7.
· A bit more story on this feature. When you safely remove the device in Windows XP it powers the device off – in case off a flash drive its led was switched off and in case of a portable hard drive it was spun down. But Microsoft changed this behavior in Vista and it still exists in Win 7: after you stop the device on these OSes the hard drive continue spinning and flash drive continue lighting. All modern hard drives park their heads automatically when you unplug them so in theory this behavior shouldn’t lead to data losses or drive damages. But in practice external hard drive usually sounds strangely when you unplug it on run and this makes a hard drive owner being a bit nervous when he hears that. We have got lots of feedback requests on this feature therefore we added it to the new version.
May 10th, 2010"Unable to stop" window has been reworked:
· "Forced Stop" button became smarter, now it not only closes all files opened by the processes on the device, but it tries to close portable applications (applications that are run from the external drive you are intending to stop). USB Safely Remove sends command to close the application so they can normally stop and save their settings. If the application refuses to be closed (e.g. it displays message "Are you sure you want to exit?") you have to find the application on your desktop and close it manually, or you can bring it to the front of the desktop or just forcibly kill it.
· Also we simplified this window interface by removing "Close programs" button. Now considering that "Forced Stop" feature became smarter, this button became useless, moreover it was confusing and a bit unsafe as pressing it could lead to closing of some important processes (e.g. your whole desktop in case if Explorer were opened on the removable drive). However we still leave the ability to close or forcibly terminate a specific program on the list from the context menu of the process (by right clicking to the process).
Bugs fixed:
· "USB Safely Remove assistant service" crashed if there were too many files opened from the drive that was being stopped
· Better compatibility with Win Vista & 7 (sometimes program may not launch on these OSes)
· Sometimes the program may not restore hidden drive letters (if "Hide drive letters" option was disabled)
June 16th, 2009"Launch Programs" (Autorun) feature was significantly improved:
· More than one process to launch can be assigned
· Processes can be launched after device stopping and after device removal
· Parameters can be passed to the command line optionally
· Processes can be launched gloablly for all devices
Many predefined program autorun templates added:
· Running Explorer or TotalCommander
· Scannig conected device with an antivirus
· MountingDismounting TrueCrypt volumes
· and etc
· New languages added: Hebrew, Catalan, Dutch (Netherlands),
· Serbian (Cyrillic), Belarus, Macedonian and Indonesian.
· Now the program speaks more than 40 languages!
· System drive letter now cannot be changed from the program
· TaskBar button is displayed for some windows of the program (main window,
· entering registration data window)
· The system tray icon now displays device states. The program displays
different icons when:
· There are stopped but still plugged devices
· There are no connected devices
· Program is scanning for devices
· Added ability to request your lost license key
· Fixed: Hidden system drives were displayed after uninstall the program
· Fixed: Incorrect drive letters were displayed on computers with USB
· floppy drives
· And other small user interface improvements
May 26th, 2009"Autorun Programs" UI was improved:
· Hint with process details is displayed on mouse hover
· Fixed: Sometimes an error occured on process dragging-and-dropping
· Command line is displayed in autorun template wizard
· Process icons are displayed now (in the launch list)!
· "Scanning drives with Kaspersky" template in "Global Autorun" added
· Optional launching programs only for disk devices added
· The system tray icon now displays device states. The program displays
different icons when:
· There are stopped but still plugged devices
· There are no connected devices
· Program is scanning for devices
New languages added:
· Catalan, Dutch (Netherlands), Serbian (Cyrillic), Belarus
· Icons in the language switch added
· Bug-report window was improved
Fixed several bugs in "Autorun" feature:
· %DriveLetter% parameter wasn't passed for drives mounted as a folder
· Sometimes %DriveLetter% parameter was empty for drive devices
· ÞviceName% parameter was passed with drive letter
· Autorun on after device stopping sometimes didn't work
· Fixed: Sometimes the program cannot be closed
· Fixed: Main window doesn't restore its size after program restart
April 11th, 2009· Autorun feature was extremelly improved
· More than one process to launch can be assigned
· Processes can be launched after device stopping and after device removal
· Parameters can be passed to command line optionally
· Processes can be launched gloablly for all devices
· Explorer, TotalCommander, Antivirus and TrueCrypt integration
· Drive letter of system drive now cannot be changed from the program
· Fixed: Hidden system drives were displayed after uninstall the program
· Fixed: Incorrect drive letters were displayed on computers with USB floppy drives
· TaskBar button is displayed for some windows of the program (main window, entering registration data window)
December 8th, 2008· ===== Key features =====
· Ability to hide drives of empty card reader slots
· Card reader support - feature to eject memory cards
· Feature to easily change letters of hot-plug drives
· Option to mount hot-plug drive as a folder
· PCMCIA and many other hot-plug devices support
· Can stop SATA drives that isn't seen in native "Safely Remove Hardware"
· Searching locking process spead is now many times faster!
· Multi monitor support
· Ability to close files opened by locking processes rather than killing processes
13 new languages were added:
· Albanian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Danish,
· Estonian, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Serbian, Slovak, Vietnamese,
· Persian
· UAC compatibility! The program works properly under UAC-controlled accounts
· 64 bit compatibility! The program works in Vista and XP 64 bit
· Ability to prohibit assigning specified letters to hot-plug drives
· Feature to return stopped device back!
· ===== UI improvements and bug-fixes =====
· New option: Ability to browse devices in alternative file manager
· New option: Disable poping up the menu on mouse hover over systray icon
· Device stop menu varies its width depending on device names
· More device icons were added
· Documentation was significantly improved
· The menu hides itself by repeating the hotkey
· BSoD occured on some systems while program is searching for locking processes
· The program icon could disappear or be displayed when it wasn't required (When "Hide icon when there are no devices ..." option is checked)
· Command "usr errs" didn't work
· The installer and all program components is now signed by a Verisign code certificate
· Automated bug-report and system info collection mechanism
· Command line tool became free for personal use!
July 30th, 2008· An ability to operate surprise removal USB devices has been added
· Command line tool is now able to "Return device back"
· "Enhanced logging" option has been added (required only on interact with our support team)
· The program updated its internal device list once too often (it leaded to increasing CPU load)
· Sometimes the program overloaded the system on start or on connection of a new device
· Locking processes was not displayed on Windows 2000
· Sometimes the program suggested to disable USB device (not to safely remove it)
· Sometimes an error occured on attempt to return device back
· GUI improvements: unattractive margins in some windows has been fixed
· It was impossible to browse device from the program which is mounted as a folder and a drive letter at the same time
· The program icon did not displayed in the windows uninstall applet
· Korean language was not selected automatically on Korean locales
· The program crashed on attempt to change image name in the choosing file dialog
· Improved hot-key support
July 14th, 2008· This version contains only critical fixes of beta 5 bugs and updated language packs.
· On some configurations the program often displayed an error and hung on restart
· Unneccessary devices were displayed
· The program didn't allow to deactivate a device in Windows Device Manager
· Korean language has been added
Updated languages:
· Albanian, Chinese-Simplified, Estonian, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian, Slovenian.
July 14th, 2008· On some configurations the program often displayed an error and hung on restart
· Unneccessary devices were displayed
· The program didn't allow to deactivate a device in Windows Device Manager
· Korean language has been added
· Updated languages:Albanian, Chinese-Simplified, Estonian, German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Russian, Hungarian, Slovenian.
September 19th, 2007· Displaying the processes that prevent the removal
· Forced device stop
· Possibility to remove SATA devices
· Feature to assign your own picture as an icon to any device
· Real device names
· Powerful command line support
· Guaranteed safe device removal
March 13th, 2007· Fully reworked user interface, to be simplier and more intuitive
· Highly customizable Quick-stop-menu added
· Displayable-Not Displayable devices options
· Ability to hide icon when there are no devices
December 20th, 2006· Fixed: sometimes program hang on Browse feature
· Fixed: some small bugs
October 9th, 2006· Main icon changed
· Fixed: some small bugs
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