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I finally got a reproducible test situation setup where EjectUSB's ejection fails. I've been hammering away at the issue all afternoon. Assuming I find a reliable solution soon, I'm aiming for a version 1.1 release this evening. I'll be adding a flash demonstration of EjectUSB in action as well (tha...

That's a nice read Richard; thanks for the link. It reminds me of my recent encounter with Acronis though... (cool that Acronis 8 can be acquired free right now). MaxBlast 5, Maxtor's utility for getting a new drive up and running, is a branded version of Acronis and I had a rather unpleasant encoun...

Well, some of the utilities (1?) also display shades of gray to help you adjust your brightness and contrast. I think they're just meant to be quick diagnostic tools to help you spot dead pixels accurately and quickly and not necessarily on a display you're familiar with. As for what good it does kn...

Thank you very much for adding EjectUSB to the database Mr. Lee; I'm really proud to have contributed something. Now, it seems EjectUSB's eject function is failing on non-English versions of Windows, and I'd like to get this resolved. I need screenshots of the following windows, but in languages oth...

It's a Thinstalled .NET framework (just right click the exe and check the version tab; has two Thinstall entries), so it's quite likely not legitimate, but it is cool. In my opinion, it just helps show why Thinstall has a $5000 pricetag; being able to virtualize the whole .NET framework is pretty po...

Wow, the new version is smaller (in terms of file size). I'm impressed; I was worried it was going to become more bloated, not less bloated. The dependency on GDIPlus is gone as is the inane UI theme. Unfortunately it still writes its settings to topocr.ini in the Windows folder, so a wrapper is sti...

D'oh. Well, I'll mess with the site some more when I have the chance. There's still quite a bit that isn't ready yet there. As long as the file download works, that's all I care about right now.

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Revision 13, Release 1.0!

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Well, here's a simple site on my (practically) unused blog space for EjectUSB:
http://www.pocketappreview.com/main/item/ejectusb

I'll put something in the submission forum later when I get the chance.

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Bah, what a stupid option then. Ah well, now I know to avoid it as well.

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I had a hunch that was the reason for the sleep loop. At this point, this is just offering up the information just for alternatives; I don't think this way or your way is superior: Opt("WinWaitDelay", 2000) should let you use RunWait or ProcessWaitClose with a 2000 ms pause between checks....

The download and install routine is simple and elegant. The registry backup and restore looks solid but I don't see a failsafe in case of failure; for example, if power is lost and the wrapper is run again, does the backup of the host settings get overwritten or properly maintained? All it'd take is...

To be fair, it's not actually doing any ''compiling'' at all (unfortunately). It's simply packing the batch file inside an exe and unpacking it when run. This means you still face the same OS-specific batch file syntax issues. It does have the advantage of packaging other files with the batch file a...

Have you tried using EjectUSB with KeePass in the last few versions? I specifically tested KeePass when implementing ''graceful'' program closing, and as long as you didn't have any unsaved changes in KeePass, it shutdown properly (so it wouldn't give the ''database locked'' message, or whatever it ...

vers.rc is simply a text file of the Version Info data for the pre-compiled executable (.bin file) and can be used by Resource Hacker (which I believe is used by AutoItWrapper to modify executable icons and version info). It has the .rc extension because that's the way ResHacker exported it. The two...

I will add -S (and -H) to further error-proof EjectUSB's ejection routine, but if USB_Disk_Eject.exe was failing to delete itself, it's its own self-deletion routine that's failing. Regardless, you did point out a flaw in how I was handling it, so everything worked out for the best. =) When EjectUSB...