Re: How to find out what applications or processes are using a USB drive?

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"Steffen Koch" <steffen.koch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Paul Randall schrieb:
Hi,
Too often, I find myself wanting to eject a USB drive, and the computer
tells me that the removable disk is currently in use, and I have to
examine a bunch of windows to see what might be using the drive. I think
it is sometimes not a windowed application, such as an antivirus scan. I
have a feeling that there are more than one free tool available from
Microsoft or others that can be used to tell what application or process
is using a specified drive letter. I'm hoping someone will post some
suggestions of such tools that can be used from VBScript, such as command
line tools, where the tool's output can be gotten from the shell exec
method's reading of StdOut.

Thanks,

-Paul Randall

Hi Paul,

may you should try out USBSafelyRemove (http://safelyremove.com/)

regards
Steffen

Thanks. That looks interesting. Its not scriptable, but may be handy.

-Paul Randall


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