DriveCleanup

DriveCleanup V0.8.1 - removes non present drives from the device tree
Freeware by Uwe Sieber (c) 2007-2011



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 only)

and their linked registry items under

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMMountedDevices
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlDeviceClasses
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMountPoints2
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerMountPoints2CPCVolume


Usage:

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

no params: cleanup all
-t test mode
-n no wait when finished
-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 without parameter it removes all types of devices listed above and cleans the registry.

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






Works under Windows 2000, XP and higher only. Under x64 edtitions of Windows
only the x64 version works.

Administrator previleges are required for cleanup.