tekkaman Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 USB Safely Remove Still works on XP. Replaces the standard usb icon in the taskbar. Let's you assign permanent letters to USB devices , force remove and more. Homepage: https://safelyremove.com/index.htm 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VistaLover Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 19 hours ago, tekkaman said: USB Safely Remove Still works on XP ... Thanks, I guess ; what you didn't include in your OP is the fact the app is a payware, with a "free" 30d trial ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekkaman Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 10 minutes ago, VistaLover said: ... Thanks, I guess ; what you didn't include in your OP is the fact the app is a payware, with a "free" 30d trial ... I forgot. But I think it's worth it. It's only $19.90 . I think it's a fair price. It doesn't get updated that often to warrant a lifetime license. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George King Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 3 hours ago, VistaLover said: ... Thanks, I guess ; what you didn't include in your OP is the fact the app is a payware, with a "free" 30d trial ... I already got free lifetime license Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkinis Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 best safe way to remove/ disconnect a USB drive is to go to my computer, right click, eject the tray bar icon sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't, it's slower and get's stuck at times. why pay for an alternative tool ? LOOOOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George King Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 2 hours ago, Milkinis said: best safe way to remove/ disconnect a USB drive is to go to my computer, right click, eject the tray bar icon sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't, it's slower and get's stuck at times. why pay for an alternative tool ? LOOOOL Have you tried that tool? Probably not. You can always use what you want 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkinis Posted August 12, 2023 Share Posted August 12, 2023 3 minutes ago, George King said: You can always use what you want of course I won't waste a second building an XP ISO with so many dumb requirements AOMEI backupper can image or restore a fully updated partition with a few clicks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 12 hours ago, Milkinis said: why pay for an alternative tool ? LOOOOL For those who don't wanna pay, try ProEject "is a software tool whose purpose is to aid people in dismounting removable drives faster, by closing running apps and opened windows, as well as in cleaning the registry and device" https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/ProEject.shtml Get back with your thoughts. I also want to try. Thanks. Full XP support is claimed. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Draker Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 There's also USB Disk Ejector, lightweight and open-source USB removal tool, another good free alternative to the USB Safely Remove. https://quickandeasysoftware.net/software/usb-disk-ejector Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10 (32 and 64 bit) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milkinis Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 2 hours ago, D.Draker said: For those who don't wanna pay, try ProEject thanks but no. looking at the screncaps I see a lot of options and this is way too much just for a removable disk ejector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroSkipper Posted August 13, 2023 Share Posted August 13, 2023 (edited) I use the tool USBDLM. It is freeware, developed in Germany by Uwe Sieber, still updated and compatible with Windows XP. The latest version is USBDLM 5.5.9 from 09.07.2023. This is a quotation from the English version of the homepage to get an idea what this tool is about: Quote USBDLM is a Windows service that gives control over Windows' drive letter assignment for USB drives. Running as service makes it independent of the logged on user's privileges, so there is no need to give the users the privilege to change drive letters. It automatically solves conflicts between USB drives and network or subst drives of the currently logged on user. Furthermore you can define new default letters for USB drives and much more. It works on Windows XP to Windows 11 and Server 2003 to 2022. Additionally, it reports successfully (connecting and) disconnecting of any USB drives via a systray balloon tip to let the user know when the drive can be unplugged safely. Therefore, I do not need an extra tool for a safe remove of USB drives. Homepage: https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html Cheers, AstroSkipper Edited August 13, 2023 by AstroSkipper Update of content 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekkaman Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 (edited) On 8/12/2023 at 2:14 PM, Milkinis said: best safe way to remove/ disconnect a USB drive is to go to my computer, right click, eject the tray bar icon sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't, it's slower and get's stuck at times. why pay for an alternative tool ? LOOOOL The thing is that sometimes eject doesn't work... @AstroSkipper Quote Additionally, it reports successfully (connecting and) disconnecting of any USB drives via a systray balloon tip to let the user know when the drive can be unplugged safely. Therefore, I do not need an extra tool for a safe remove of USB drives. It's Ok. We're just listing everything that works so that people can evaluate each alternative and choose whatever is best for them. Edited August 17, 2023 by tekkaman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petekeller Posted September 5, 2023 Share Posted September 5, 2023 New CamAV https://oss.netfarm.it/clamav/ C:\clamav-x86-0.103.10>freshclam Creating missing database directory: C:\clamav-x86-0.103.10\db ClamAV update process started at Tue Sep 05 14:07:24 2023 daily database available for download (remote version: 27022) Time: 38.2s, ETA: 0.0s [========================>] 58.85MiB/58.85MiB Testing database: 'C:\clamav-x86-0.103.10\db\tmp.83b74eade8\clamav-a4bd374e54ef0 978146748d44e409cb3.tmp-daily.cvd' ... Database test passed. daily.cvd updated (version: 27022, sigs: 2040261, f-level: 90, builder: raynman) main database available for download (remote version: 62) Time: 1m 45s, ETA: 0.0s [========================>] 162.58MiB/162.58MiB Testing database: 'C:\clamav-x86-0.103.10\db\tmp.83b74eade8\clamav-2023b2874e3a4 3d7dcec97293624507e.tmp-main.cvd' ... Database test passed. main.cvd updated (version: 62, sigs: 6647427, f-level: 90, builder: sigmgr) bytecode database available for download (remote version: 334) Time: 0.3s, ETA: 0.0s [========================>] 285.12KiB/285.12KiB Testing database: 'C:\clamav-x86-0.103.10\db\tmp.83b74eade8\clamav-d226fbf39d093 3f0466f052bfb63f5ac.tmp-bytecode.cvd' ... Database test passed. bytecode.cvd updated (version: 334, sigs: 91, f-level: 90, builder: anvilleg) C:\clamav-x86-0.103.10> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranceBB Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 (edited) Yep ClamAV works but it's also very prone to detect false positives. I've had very bad experiences on every platform I tried it on: Fedora (lots of false positives, it deleted plenty of good files) and Windows98SE (again, lots of false positives, including all the KernelEx stuff being wrongly detected, Retrozilla builds etc). Unfortunately, on Win98 there isn't much else one can use nowadays, so it's either that or nothing as old version of avast 4.8 have the last definitions update from the end of 2017 and haven't been updated ever since. Luckily with XP we still have alternatives, but yeah, one day we might end up on that one, unfortunately... Still, better than nothing and with Clam Sentinel you can have real time scanning too. Still, ClamAV + Clam Sentinel are still light years away from proper, modern antivirus solutions, unfortunately. In any case, it's nice to know that we can rely on free open source solutions when support for literally everything else fades away... Edited September 6, 2023 by FranceBB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NojusK Posted September 7, 2023 Share Posted September 7, 2023 (edited) After MSE stopped updating back in 2019, I switched to Malwarebytes and it worked perfectly fine for me. The only con is that it's paid, but oh well. Edited September 7, 2023 by NojusK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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