USB flash drives are so common nowadays and I believe most of us already have one. It is very convenient to carry along our data with us all the time but can also be a problem when you’re unable to properly eject it from your computer. The error message “The device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later.” is what you’ll see when you’re having the problem. You can use Unlocker to unlock the files in used and then eject OR you can use a special tool called USB Safely Remove developed to help you easily manage your external hotpluggable device.
USB Safely Remove normally cost $20 for a single user license which last a lifetime but they’re giving away free licenses to everyone for a week in order to promote upcoming version 4.0. You may use all the features of the program and get upgrades for one year for free. Actually they’ve done this early this year on February to promote version 3.3, so no big surprise that they’ll start doing it again. Continue reading on how to get your free USB Safely Remove v4 registration code.
USB Safely Remove is a neat and handy replacement for the standard ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ tool. It will make life easier and save time for those who have several hotplug (USB, SATA, Firewire) devices and those who use them extensively.
USB Safely Remove is better than the Windows ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ tool because:
The ability to hide any device from the ‘stop’ menu. Uses real device names and allows renaming. Keyboard shortcuts for easy device stopping. Unique menu for one-click stop. Programs autorun on device plugging/unplugging. It tells you why a device cannot be stopped immediately.
The latest USB Safely Remove version 4.0 includes a few very useful features such as “Return device back”. After you stopped a device, but still did not unplug it, sometimes it would be very useful to return it back to the system. For example if you have remembered you forgot to write a file to the drive after you stopped it. In this case you are compelled to physically replug the device. However sometimes it is quite inconvenient if the device is connected to the rear panel of the computer. USB Safely Remove allows you to return your device back as easy as you do safe removal – in a one click!
The new version can see and stop such devices like PCMCIA. Also it has a unique feature to stop even those hot-swap devices whose drivers does not support “authentic safe removal” (they cannot be seen in the native Windows Safe Removal tool), e.g. Silicon Image SATA devices. USB Safely Remove stops these devices via “disabling” (as Windows Device Manager do), however it makes stopping of these devices convenient for user – in the same manner as you do ordinary safe removal.
Most of the card readers create a drive letter for every slot even if it doesn’t contain a memory card. Those who uses only one or two memory cards at the same time, might dislike this behaviour. The new version allows you to get rid of this problem – you will see only those drives of the card reader where memory cards are connected.
To get your free USB Safely Remove 4.0 license, head to this page http://safelyremove.com/giveawayweekp.htm, enter your full name (nickname not accepted!), email address and click “I want the license button”.
Your license will be sent to you within 24 hours. There is a great likelyhood that you’ll get it much earlier, but just in case, be patient please. Once you got the registration name and registration code, launch USB Safely Remove > go to Help > Enter License Key. The latest USB Safely Remove v4.0 beta works on both 32 and 64 bit of Windows.
I am starting to think whether they’ve officially started giving the free license away or not because I couldn’t find any page linking to the offer page. I’ve just requested a free USB Safely Remove v4 license and hope to get it soon. Will report immediately when I do get the free registration code.
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