Highlighted options

• Displaying volume labels instead of names of storage devices
• Hiding the systray icon when there are no devices to be stopped
• The hotkey Win+S will stop the only device connected, instead of displaying the menu
• Disabling pop-up of the device menu
• Hidding drives of card reader's empty slots from the system
• Skin changing

"General" tab

1. Allows to disable run of the program on Windows startup
2. Allows to power off devices on stopping.
   Changes default behavior of Windows Vista and Seven which do not do not power off USB ports when you stop a flash drive or an external hard drive. Read more
3. Allows to display ALL USB devices, even those that do not need to be stopped.
   When this option is disabled the program shows only those devices which reported to the system that they needed to be stopped before a disconnection.
   Why this option is needed?

   • Some devices report to the operation system that thay can be removed without prior stopping. However, actually, they needed to be stopped, because some important data which is transmitted to (or from) device may be lost. An example of such devices is USB programmer.
   • Some human interaction devices (mouses, keyboards, trackballs), sometimes may became into a wrong state - they stop reacting on user's actions. Physical reconnect of the device could help in this case, however if the device is located in a hard-to-get-to place, a good idea is to stop this device and then "Return device back" from the program.
   • And the last reason is that some people feel yourself more confident if they can see and control all USB devices connected to the computer.
4. Let you display all storage devices
   Sometimes neither USB Safely Remove, nor native Windows' safe removal tool, sees some devices (mainly this problem concerns SATA devices). Enable this option and you will see all storage devices even non hot-swappable (e.g. your IDE drives). Just hide not needed for you devices from the stop menu and leave there only required ones.
5. Allows to display volume label instead of device name for storage devices.
   Volume label is a drive name which is displayed on the drive in Explorer and also can be changed there.
6. Lets you change the program language
   The program speaks about 40 languages. If you cannot find your mother language in the list, or you think the program has bad wording, feel free to notify us.

"Look and Feel" tab

1. Allows to display native "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the system tray.
   By default the program hides this icon.
2. Let you hide the program icon, when there are no devices in the menu to be stopped
3. You can choose which size device icons you want to see in the stop menu - the large one, or the small one
4. Allows to display the number of the visible on the menu devices in the system tray icon

"Behaviour" tab

1. What to do if a user tries to stop a card reader instead of a memory card?
   
2. Wherein browse device drive?
   When you chose "Browse USB Device" item in the context menu of the device, or press Ctrl-B key combination staying on device, by default, the program browse device's drive in Windows Explorer. If you prefer to use an alternative file manager, it will be more useful for you to browse drive in it. To setup this, switch this option to "An alternative manager" value and enter a command line to run the file manager into the field below, using %drive% template. The program will replace %drive% with a drive letter of a certain device. For example this line:
   C:\Program Files\totalcmd\TOTALCMD.EXE %drive%
   Allows to browse a device drive in a newly launched copy of Total Commander.
   
   For your convenience we have implemented an integration with Total Commander, one of the most popular file managers. Just choose an item in the menu which is launched by pressing "?" button, and the program will generate a required parameter combination by itself to open a drive on the right or left panel of a running Total Commander. The only thing you must do is to specify a path to Total Commander executable.
   
3. Allows to disable\enable poping up of the device menu
   

"Global Hotkeys" tab

"Notifications" tab

• Settings of balloon tooltips
  "Balloon tooltips" is program notifications about such occured events as: device connecting, stopping, disconnecting or assigning the device another drive letter and etc.
  1. "Show balloon tooltip" check box manages whether any tooltips near the icon in the system tray are displayed.
  2. If the check box below is anabled you can specify a time interval of staying a tooltip on the screen.
  3. Also you can specify device types for what you want to see tooltips - only for displayed in the stop menu, or for all devices (both displayed and hidden).
• Settings of auto check for updates
  4. Enable\disable notifications about new versions of the program
     Every 5 days the program requests "safelyremove.com" web-server if there are new versions. If there is a newer version than current one on the server, the program will display the message about it.
     If you have a firewall software, you have to allow it to permit all outcoming connection from the program (USBSafelyRemove.exe) with the next parameters:

     • Connection type: outcoming
     • Port: 80
     • Protocol: TCP (HTTP)
     • Remote server: safelyremove.com

     The program connects only to this host and port! If you noticed that the program tries to connect to another hosts or ports, perhaps it is infected by a virus - please check all files of the program with an antivirus software.
• Proxy server settings
  You should set up this settings only if you are connected to the Internet via proxy server. These settings will be used by the "check for updates" and the error reporting mechanisms.
  5. Enable this check box if you have a proxy server
  6. These are a standard parameters of a proxy server connection
     You can copy them from your browser's network settings.
  7. The button checks if proxy settings have been specified correctly - it tries connecting to safelyremove.com server with the specified proxy settings.

"Drive letters" tab

1. Automatically hides drives of empty card reader slotes
   
   1. This option affects only card reader devices, that is devices detected as a card reader by the program automatically, or with an option "Yes, it's a card reader" manually set in the properties of the device. (see Device properties -> "Common" tab -> Item 5 )
   2. If an option was enabled and you are disabling it, the program returns to the system all "empty" drives. You can use it, for example, to temporarily return all drives into the system.
   3. Once you deinstall the program, it also returns all "empty" drives to the system
   Once you close the program it does not return drives of empty slotes into the system. So if you insert a memory card into the slot that was empty (and its drive was hidden by the program), while the program is not working, the inserted memory card will be unavailabe in the system! Just run the program and it makes the memory card available in the system.
2. Prevents assigning specified drive letters to hot-plug devices All letters you have specified in this field will not be assigned to hot-plug devices. It is useful if you want to reserve this letters for network drives.

"Global Autorun" Tab

"Advanced" tab

1. Allows to enable\disable verbose logging.
   If the program became unstable on your computer, or does not display required devices or just reported about a bug, we would appreciate it if you enable this option, work some time with it and then send us a bug-report from the program. Read more at topic: How to send a note or a feature request. After you have sent us a report, we recommend you to disable this option. This option makes program write to the log many useful for us information, however the log grows very fast.

"Skins" tab

• "Default" - is a default skin, which is built into the program body.
• "Classic" - a skin simulated Windows Classic Scheme.
• "Black Contrast" - a black contrast skin, which is helpful for low-seeing people.
• "Black Velvet" - is an additional black skin with soft shades of color.