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donald
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An applicatiion and ...

#1 Post by donald »

Reading the article linked below, I am wondering if there is not a better way to clear all device entries, not just flash-drives.

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USB Scrub Cleans up Registry After Excessive USB Drive Use
Nexcopy, ... releasing USB Scrub as freeware today.
... 260 registry entries get made every time a flash drive is connected. ... In Nexcopy's tests an overused system's accessibility lag went from 45 seconds to 15 seconds.

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#2 Post by stanmarsh »

CleanAfterMe by Nirsoft, has an option to clean "Installed USB Devices"

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#3 Post by guinness »

Why not try...

Synopsis: DriveCleanup removes all currently non present "Storage Volumes", "Disk", "CDROM", "Floppy" USB drives and their USB devices from the device tree. Furthermore it removes orphaned registry items related to these device types.
Started with parameter -T (like test) it shows which devices it would remove. Started without a parameter, it does its job without further inquiry.

Note: I class this as a non-commandline application, because it can run without parsing any parameters.


Writes settings to: Application folder
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DriveCleanup.exe.
Stealth: Yes
License: Freeware
System Requirements: WinXP / Vista / 7
Download: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html

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