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    Drive Cleanup

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    DriveCleanup is freeware that removes non-present drives from the Windows device tree and registry. It deletes entries for USB devices like storage, disks, CDROMs, and floppies that are no longer connected. It must be run as an administrator to perform cleanup, but has a test mode. The program calls Windows functions to delete device entries and checks that they are fully removed.

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    Drive Cleanup

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    DriveCleanup is freeware that removes non-present drives from the Windows device tree and registry. It deletes entries for USB devices like storage, disks, CDROMs, and floppies that are no longer connected. It must be run as an administrator to perform cleanup, but has a test mode. The program calls Windows functions to delete device entries and checks that they are fully removed.

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    DriveCleanup is freeware that removes non-present drives from the Windows device tree and registry. It deletes entries for USB devices like storage, disks, CDROMs, and floppies that are no longer connected. It must be run as an administrator to perform cleanup, but has a test mode. The program calls Windows functions to delete device entries and checks that they are fully removed.

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    Drive Cleanup

    Uploaded by

    Alekso Gjakovski
    DriveCleanup is freeware that removes non-present drives from the Windows device tree and registry. It deletes entries for USB devices like storage, disks, CDROMs, and floppies that are no longer connected. It must be run as an administrator to perform cleanup, but has a test mode. The program calls Windows functions to delete device entries and checks that they are fully removed.

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    DriveCleanup v1.2.

    0 - removes non present drives from the device tree


    Freeware by Uwe Sieber (c) 2007-2016

    Works under Windows XP and higher only. Under x64 edtitions of Windows
    only the x64 version works.

    Removes from the device tree non present


    - USB hubs
    - USB mass storage devices
    - USB Disk devices
    - USB CDROM devices
    - USB Floppy devices
    - USB Storage Volumes
    - USB WPD devices (Vista, Win7, Win8 and higher only)

    and their registry items under

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\UsbFlags
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints2\
    CPC\Volume

    Usage:

    DriveCleanup [-t] [-n] [-u] [-d] [-c] [-f] [-v] [-r]

    no params: cleanup all


    -t test mode
    -n no wait for keypress when finished if started standalone
    -u only USB mass storage devices
    -d only USB Disk devices
    -c only USB CDROM devices
    -f only USB Floppy devices
    -v only USB Storage Volume devices
    -r only registry items of USB volumes
    -w only USB WPD devices

    Called with admin previleges and without a parameter it removes all types of
    devices
    listed above and cleans the registry.
    Without admin previleges it switches to test mode and shows the item it would
    remove.

    Samples:

    DriveCleanup -t
    test mode, lists devices and registry items to remove

    DriveCleanup
    removes non present devices related to drives and their registry items

    DriveCleanup -v -d
    removes non present USB Storage Volumes and USB Disks
    Administrator previleges are required for cleanup.

    DriveCleanup isn't stricly limited to drives, USB hubs and the Enum\
    NextParentID.xxxxx.n
    values may be not drive related.
    Deleteing automatically any type of non-present device seems to be too dangerous,
    therefore
    I've made a GUI tool for this, so it's up to the user not to delete something
    important...
    http://www.uwe-sieber.de/misc_tool_e.html#devicecleanup

    DriveCleanup calls Windows device manangement functions for deleting devices


    entries. If it shows OK
    then Windows responded that this succeeded. When finished DriveCleanup checks all
    again and should
    find zero devices if it showed OK for all before. Sometimes Windows says OK but in
    fact the device
    is still present.

    Since Vista Administrators have no more write access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\


    CurrentControlSet\Enum
    and even being the owner they have no right to change the permissions. Therefore
    deleting unreferenced
    NextParentID.xxxxx.n items needs more than admin previleges. To get these,
    DriveCleanup starts itself in
    the SYSTEM context to change Enum's security descriptor, performs the cleanup and
    restores the security
    descriptor. Maybe this alerts security software.

    Licence: Freeware

    Allowed:
    - usage in any environment, including commercial
    - include in software products, including commercial
    - include on CD/DVD of computer magazines

    Not allowed:
    - modify any of the files
    - offer for download by means of a "downloader" software

    Uwe Sieber
    Jan 2016

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