HotSwap!

HotSwap is a lightweight application designed to help you remove devices from Device Manager with just a single click, offering exactly the same features as the built-in Windows utility.

The major different is that HotSwap places an icon in the Windows System Tray and thus allows you to control your devices on the go, without the need for opening Device Manager every time.

One of the good things about HotSwap is that it makes sure that the devices you wish to remove are not in use at the time of clicking the “Eject” button. Plus, HotSwap also comes with a dedicated option to autostart with Windows and thus provide full control over the connected devices all the time.

The application supports multiple device types, including fixed disk drives, removable disk drives, DVD/CD-ROM drives, safely removable devices and non-hotswap devices.

As you can see, the amount of configuration options is pretty limited, but HotSwap tries to promote a more user-friendly approach, making everything very easy to use even for the very beginners.

It works just fine on Windows 7 and doesn't even ask for administrator privileges, running on low resources and without slowing down the system at all.

All things considered, HotSwap is quite an interesting piece of software, but you should really pay attention to the devices you remove. HotSwap does the whole thing safely, but it provides control over multiple types of devices, so make sure you're doing the right thing before removing one of the items.