More About What it Does in Detail:

The Quick and Easy Software website gives the following details:

A program that allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device. It can be run as a non-visual command line program or a normal gui program. Its very useful if you have a USB flash/pen drive, especially if you use a menu such as PStart or the Portable Apps launcher.

The command line options are very flexible, they can be used to:

• Eject the drive that the program is running from.
• Eject a drive by specifying a drive letter.
• Eject a drive by specifying a drive name.
• Eject a drive by specifying a partial drive name.

When run as a ‘normal’ GUI program the tools enables USB devices to be quickly ejected through a mouse click or keyboard press. It’s especially useful when dealing with multiple USB devices and for Vista users who don’t want the ‘now safe to remove this device’ dialog box to appear.

Having installed the system and running the program the following screens and menus are provided:

This review will follow the usual format of presenting the majority of information as screenshots backed up by further information where necessary.

Starting USB Disk Ejector shows this Window:

The only action available is to “Double (left) Click” on any line to eject the disk. There is a tooltip and a message at the top of the screen informing you of this. There are no other actions available, it is that simple.

What makes USB Disk Ejector so much better than the Windows utility?

Well like the Windows utility (when you have finally clicked through to the detailed view) it provides the drive letter and details of the device (as shown in the red box). However, it also shows the name of the device where this has been assigned (as shown in the blue box). In the above example both my Freecom ToughDrives still have the original name assigned by the manufacturer but this can be easily changed. The Sandisk device is a flash card reader so doesn’t have a name assigned.

Double left clicking on a device line starts the eject procedure and the details are now grayed out while this happens;

When the disk has been ejected it no longer shows and the screen returns to the non-gray state. If the disk cannot be ejected it will still show when the non-gray state returns BUT there is no warning.

When all drives have been ejected or if you start the utility without any USB drives mounted you see the following window (great icon!)

Another advantage that USB Disk Ejector has over the windows utility is the ability to resize the window by dragging the edges or corners. This means you can see all the mounted drives without scrolling. (The window size is remembered between sessions so you don’t have to resize each time)

Their is also a link to the website in the statusbar:

A separate HTML help/instruction file is included which gives details of the command line options:

What is USB Disk Ejector?:
A program that allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device. It can be run as a non-visual command line program or a normal gui program.
The command line options are very flexible, they can be used to:

• Eject the drive that the program is running from.
• Eject a drive by specifying a drive letter.
• Eject a drive by specifying a drive name.
• Eject a drive by specifying a partial drive name.

Its very useful if you have a USB flash/pen drive, especially if you use a menu such as PStart or the Portable Apps launcher. With one click the menu will exit, the program will run silently and the drive will be ejected. See the ‘Command Line Options’ section below for more information.
When run as a ‘normal’ GUI program the tools enables USB devices to be quickly ejected through a mouse click or keyboard press. It’s especially useful when dealing with multiple USB devices and for Vista users who don’t want the ‘now safe to remove this device’ dialog box to appear.
The program has been tested on Windows 2000, WindowsXP and Windows Vista. Windows 98/ME are not supported (this may change in a future release).

Command Line Options:

The following command line options are available:

• /?
  Displays a dialog that shows all command line options.
• /SILENT
  Stops balloon messages from appearing when the program is run in GUI mode.
• /SHOWEJECT
  Shows the standard ”It is now safe to now safe to remove” message when a drive is ejected. This message is disabled by default.
• /REMOVETHIS
  Ejects the drive that the program is running from. Eg if the program is run from a usb stick on drive G then drive G would be ejected.
• /REMOVELETTER
  Ejects the specified drive letter. Eg /REMOVELETTER G
• /REMOVENAME
  Ejects the drive with the specified name. Eg /REMOVENAME “Sandisk U3 Titanium”
  Partial name matching is possible if a wildcard (*) is used. Eg /REMOVENAME “*SANDISK” would eject a drive that had Sandisk in its name.

The REMOVETHIS, REMOVELETTER and REMOVENAME parameters are command line only. Ie. when they are used the program will run silently, with no window appearing. There will be no feedback from the program and a message will only be shown if there is an error and a device cannot be ejected.

The command line options may be combined, eg:

• /SILENT /SHOWEJECT - would run the program in GUI mode, but no balloon messages would be shown and the eject message would be shown.
• /SHOWEJECT /REMOVELETTER F - would eject drive F without any window appearing and the eject message would be shown.

Finally – Mobile Mode (This is a really nice touch for portable freeware users)

Mobile Mode: If you try and eject the drive that the program is running from then the program will restart itself in mobile mode.
It copies itself to the pc’s temp folder, ejects the drive, then closes and deletes itself. It means that you can run the program from a usb pen drive and then eject that pen drive.

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