It's a simple trick, but one that can really come in handy. More than 83 million people use GitHub to discover, fork. If you always mean to remove a USB drive or other removable drive before you shut down your PC but always forget, try Free USB Guard. We safely removed the drives and proceeded with the shutdown. If needed you can download separately from the. Free USB Guard displayed a warning pop-up that had buttons we could use to cancel or proceed with the shutdown. Each Windows package comes with the latest stable release of Npcap, which is required for live packet capture. We clicked Cancel to cancel the shutdown and return to Windows. Windows 7 displayed the open program warning screen. Perhaps unusually, the program didn't let us deselect the USB drive or any of our other monitored drives. Free USB Guard displayed the external hard drive with the option to deselect it from monitoring. Free USB Guard only detects external hard drives if they're plugged in after the software is running, so we plugged one in, as well as a standard USB thumbdrive. It also listed our internal hard drives by volume, though none was selected.
By default, all our removable drives were selected, including our card reader, though none had media. The first item on the menu is the list of monitored drives. It's portable freeware that can autostart with Windows.įree USB Guard checks for updates automatically the first time you run it and every time thereafter, unless you uncheck that option in the program's system tray menu, from which you can also check for updates whenever you like.
You can also restart your system or cancel the shutdown. It gives you the opportunity to safely remove the drives or leave them attached and shut down anyway. Free USB Guard is an interesting little tool that prevents your system from shutting down if a USB drive or other type of removable drive is still attached.
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