Site of the Day for Friday, September 30, 2016
USBDLM - Software of the Month
This month's program for Windows, from XP to 10, addresses an issue which has
become more common in this age of ever increasing external storage devices. USB
Drive Letter Manager is a sophisticated program, considered by many to be more
a standby of the IT crowd than the ordinary computer user. There's no reason,
however, why a few of its excellent capabilities can't be taken advantage of by
ordinary folks.
Written by German programmer Uwe Sieber, USBDLM runs as a Windows service after
installation. While IT types may prefer to deal with it on a command line
basis, regular users will find themselves more comfortable in the program's
ordinary graphical interface.
One of the problems of dealing with ever-increasing mountains of data, is that
even though the cost of one and two terabyte drives has dropped to affordable
levels, reining them in and making them stay put "Drive Letter" wise can be a
problem. Even though there is a straightforward, if tediously long, procedure
within Windows to change a drive letter, any additional drives connected to the
computer will most likely result in a musical chairs event of changed letters
for what Windows perceives as temporary storage drives.
USB Drive Manager will put a stop to that and maintain consistency with
external drive letter names from one reboot to the next. Specific names for
attached external USB drives will remain constant as well. This simple
consistency makes shortcuts easier to handle as well as making it less
problematic for the user to find stored data.
The program is less than a mere one MB in its zipped format and it is
downloadable from the programmer's own site, unencumbered by any "hangers-on."
Although there is a help file, excellent user instructions are available at the
site, with notes on its simple installation and handy points on what the app
can do.
Stride to the site for a thoroughly useful program to tame wayward external USB
drives at:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
A.M. Holm
Comments? Suggestions? amholm@xxxxxxxxxxx
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