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This week is indeed a software giveaway week. Started with Online Armor, then Mamutu and now USB Safely Remove. So far I’ve never seen a USB device managing software that is so advanced like USB Safely Remove. It is a neat and reliable replacement for the standard ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ tool with unique feature “Return Device Back!” and an ability to know what prevent a device from being stopped. The program saves time and extends abilities of active users of hot-plug devices (USB, SATA, FireWire, PCMCIA).

This program has tons of features such as a handy menu to stop devices, keyboard shortcuts to safe removal, autorun program on device connection or disconnection, ejecting memory cards rather than the card reader, hiding drives of empty card reader slots, command line to safe removal, Stopping via “disabling”, and the latest one that’s being added is Return Device Back!.

From August 19th – 25th, 2009, everyone can get a free license for version 4.1 of the award-winning program USB Safely Remove. You still have around 5 more days to get your free license. So hurry and get it while you still can!


To get your free USB Safely Remove v4.1 genuine registration code, just go to their promo page at http://safelyremove.com/giveawayweeka9.htm. Make sure you enter your full name (nicknames or just names or other alphabets are not accepted), a working email address and click the “I want the license” button. You should then see a message saying that you will get your license within 24 hours or earlier. For my case, I got it immediately in my Gmail. Finally, download the latest version of USB Safely Remove v4.1.5.806 setup file usbsafelyremovesetup_4-1-5.exe and install. Enter the registration name and registration code to license the program.

If you have an antivirus software that cannot auto scan the USB flash drive after plugging in to the computer, you can set a rule on Safely Remove Hardware to call up your AV to scan once it is plugged in. This can be found in Global Autorun. I also like the Stop Menu Hotkey Win+S. By pressing a hotkey I can safely remove the device.

My favorite feature for USB Safely Remove v4.1 is the Return Device Back! Normally after we’ve stopped the device but still did not unplug it, we’ll need to unplug and reinsert it back for Windows to mount the USB flash drive. With this new feature, we can easily get it back with a click of a button without trying to re-insert the USB device back to the USB port which is at the back of the computer case. So far I couldn’t find any other software that can do this. It’d be nice to have a hotkey to enable this feature.

It seemed like Crystal Rich, the company that develops USB Safely Remove will give out free licenses for USB Safely Remove every 9 months. First time was on February 2008 for v3.3, followed v4.0 on November 2008 and now on August 2009 for v4.1. The free USB Safely Remove registration code can only be used on the particular version and cannot be used on newer or even older versions of the program. So if you want to have the flexibility of upgrading or downgrading, then you’ll need to purchase a lifetime license that cost $20.

USB Safely Remove works on Windows 2000\XP\2003\Vista. It even works on my Windows 7. Thanks Crystal Rich for the generous giveaway!