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Remove Drive Safely v1.2
Remove Drive Safely v1.2
(58 customer ratings)
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Free
v 1.2.1 - Installer Fix.v1.2 - Bug removed if empty drive is attached.Here is the gadget that will help you to disconnect your usb, SATA, eSATA drives (like Safely Remove Hardware tool). It comes as it is, works for me and do the job it's supposed to do, hope it will works with your devices also.Cheers :)Update: v1.1- Double click to explore a device- Free/used space for the drive (by request in the comments)- Auto discovery on/off *** *** Attached my floppy, and a nasty sound is played by it every thime when tha gadgets checks for plugged devices, so decide to put a checkbox for it, now, if you watch movies it will not bother you anymore until this setting is set to on. You still can check for new devices with opening the "Settings" and click OK, it will scan again!
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Operating system:Windows Vista
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Rapper_VirajW
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Love it
Great Gadget (16/12/2007)
It works fine............ Its is really good idea and a gadget. Whne the windows standard S.R icon disappears; having this tool helps to remove the drive safely............ Great work
Infi_K
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Love it
Must have (28/07/2009)
Safely removing drives is one of the most frustrating features to use in Windows, and this utility makes it easy. Plus it looks great, and doubles as a drive usage display, and a handy icon to open drives with explorer.
possessed89
3 of 5 people found this review helpful
Love it
Works perfectly!!! (15/06/2008)
i dont know what these other people are talking about. this gadget works perfectly for me, and instantly too. Maybe those people just have shitty comps, lol :P
Chilvpants
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Hate it
Total processor hog (17/05/2008)
Crashed sidebar several times, 100% CPU usage whenever I was mouse-over on the sidebar. Cute, good looking and good idea but terribly made.
RichardBeCrazy
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Hate it
System hog! (14/05/2008)
To confirm the previous review, this gadget takes up a lot of CPU resources - the Core1 would spike to 40% every 10 seconds or so. Not worth the trouble.
reductant
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Hate it
Slow to respond and consistently bogged down the sidebar (12/01/2008)
This gadget was very slow to open the drives after double-clicking on them. It also severely raised CPU usage and made the sidebar crash several times. I have 3 GB of RAM and a dual core processor, FYI. Use at own risk, but this gadget may work but at what cost?
James196431
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
It's okay
Nice functionality, but slow to respond (19/12/2007)
This gadget would be great for its intended purpose, except that it seemed extremely slow to respond to mouse clicks, options selections, etc. Other gadgets on my system are speedy to respond; this one was not.
CyberWalker-IRIS
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
Like it
Floppy drive can't stop searching for a disk!!! (09/04/2008)
Since I installed the gadget, it searches for a floppy in my floppy drive! I tried to put a floppy to make it stop but it keeps searching! It's really annoying! Please FIX THIS, I really like this gadget but this is a HUGE bug!
Zak_5
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Hate it
Useless junk (11/01/2009)
Becides waisting massive resources, windows aldready has an icon that does this correctly; it is next to the clock in the system tray whenever you have a removable device plugged in.
Fredathelovelion
0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Love it
Works fine for me (07/11/2009)
No problems at all (using Vista Home Premium SP2) nice interface, simple to use; heartily recommended :-)