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V5.2.5 (31 Aug 2016)

Bugfix: opening VBS files USBDLM did not pass parameters
New: USB Drive Info shows problem codes from the device manager in the tree nodes
New: Autorun events OnSafeRemoval and OnUnsafeRemoval

V5.2.4 (22 June 2016)

Bugfix: Since V5.1.7 [OnDeviceArrival] did not work
Bugfix: SuppressWindowsBalloons=1 did not work on non-english Windows 10
Bugfix: Ballontip's fadeout effect was broken under Vista/Win7,8,10 with non-classic display
Bugfix: open= did not work with a bat or cmd file in quotes
New: Under Windows 10 with SuppressWindowsBalloons=0 USBDLM's balloons for volumes with a drive letter are delayed by 3 Seconds to make the Windows 10 balloon come first; The delay can be changed
New: Search function in UsbDriveInfo

V5.2.3 (5 June 2016)

Bugfix: Since V5.2.2 creating USBDLM.LOG backups did not work with LogLevel >= 3
New: In the log file the date can be written in front of each line (LogShowDate=1)
New: In the log file timing, loglevel and thread ID can be ommitted (LogShowTech=0)

V5.2.2 (28 May 2016)

Bugfix: open= added the executable twice instead once as parameter under Vista, Win7,8,10
New: USBDLM service start/stop a event in the EventLog
New: Number of USBDLM.LOG backups can be set

V5.2.1 (10 May 2016)

New: Unwanted EventLog items can be deactivated

V5.2.0 (8 May 2016)

Bugfix: USBDLM_usr.exe (still) sometimes caused permanent CPU load
Bugfix: Since V5.0 USBDLM has set WriteCacheEnableOverride=1 into the Registry for newly attached USB drives if there was no UsbWriteCacheEnable configured
New: EventLog can be written to the LogFile instead

V5.1.8 (25 April 2016)

Bugfix: USBDLM_usr.exe sometimes caused permanent CPU load, probably since V5.0
Bugfix: open= did not work with document files since V5.1.3
Bugfix: USB speed icon not shown on some USB controllers running with other than Microsoft drivers
Bugfix: Maximum connection speed of USB 2.0 High-Speed devices running at Full-Speed shown wrong as USB 1.1 Full-Speed

V5.1.7 (07 April 2016)

Bugfix: USB speed icon not shown on some USB controllers not running with Microsoft drivers
Bugfix: Since V5.1.5 the PortName criteria did not work again for USB drives
Bugfix: Several minor issues fixed
New: OnArrival is triggered on instertion of a media into a CD/DVD drive

V5.1.6 (17 March 2016)

Bugfix: Since V5.0 USBDLM stoopped assigning drive letters after attaching a drive with a BusType for which there is no section DriveLetters

V5.1.5 (11 March 2016)

Bugfix: In V5.1.4 crash on balloon tip with NTFS mountpoint
Bugfix: Since V5.0 settings in the registry did not work

V5.1.4 (09 March 2016)

Bugfix: In V5.1.3 the Win32 USBDLM.exe was compiled without optimization for "Minimize Size", besides the 100KB bigger USBDLM.exe this made some virus scanners believing to detect a virus
Bugfix: Since V5.0 the PortName criteria did not work for USB drives
Rollback: Default for SuppressWindowsBalloons is 1 again; 2 (deactivating Windows balloon tips temporarily) makes the Windows tray icon for "Safely remove Hardware" stop working

V5.1.3 (07 March 2016)

Bugfix: Occational crash fixed

V5.1.2 (03 March 2016)

Bugfix: Logfile created even WriteLogfile=0

V5.1.1 (29 Feb 2016)

Bugfix: AutoDismount-TrayIcon was shown even there is no [AutoDismount] section

V5.1.0 (29 Feb 2016)

Bugfix: In sections as [OnArrival] the lines system, elevated and restricted where always resolved as 1 if present
Bugfix: In sections as [OnArrival] with only one open= line options set before the open line had no effect
New: Tray icon for showing the Auto-Dismount status
New: Flush and DismountOnSleep does not wake up sleeping drives

V5.0.2 (19 Jan 2016)

Bugfix: In a USBDLM.INI on an attached drive only Letter= and Letters= worked, but Letter1= etc possibly not

V5.0.1 (18 Jan 2016)

Bugfix: _edit-ini.cmd failed to create a USBDLM.INI when it had no write privileges; now Admin previleges are requested
Bugfix: USB speed in the balloon tip was wrong when the USB port number could not be determined, for instance if in the location information there isn't something like Port_#0002.Hub_#0003 or the address value is zero. Now the port number is determined by means of the USB-API.
Bugfix: The section [NetworkLetters] did not work in V5.0.0 if there was not section [DriveLetters]

V5.0.0 (17 Jan 2016)

New: _install.cmd and _uninstall.cmd renamed to what they really do: _service_register.cmd and _service_deregister.cmd; _start.cmd and stop.cmd renamed to _service_start.cmd and _service_stop.cmd to fit in the new naming scheme
New: For sections and values there is no more need for numbering; For unnumbered sections the order of appearence is what counts
New: Ballontips show in the icon if a USB drive is running at Full-, High-Speed, SuperSpeed or SuperSpeedPlus
New: Ballontips on removal with information if the removal was safe or not (still need translations for new texts)
New: Compact balloon tips for multi-slot card readers if only one slot has a media present
New: Balloontips can be customized way more flexible
New: AutoDismount
New: Suppressing Windows Balloontips works under Windows 10
Bugfix: After a successful request for a password sometimes no drive letter was assigned
Bugfix: Removal Policy was written to the registry even no OptimizeUsbDrivesForSpeed parameter was configured

V4.9.1.0 (30 Aug 2015)

Bugfix: starting cmd and bat files with spaces in the path did not work since V4.8.8.6

V4.9.0.0 (04 Aug 2015)

Bugfix: DeviceTypes CardReader and MSCR not set when the Disk device has the DriveType FIXED
New: Suppressing Windows balloon tips works with Windows 10

V4.8.9.9 (12 July 2015)

Workaround: Windows 7's Alt-Tab facility with Aero enabled is screwed up if there is a visible zero sized topmost window around; USBDLM used one for receiving volume notifications; now it is no more topmost nor visible which seems to make Windows 7 happy
Workaround: DismountOnSleep=1 caused a 10 Seconds delay when USBDLM tries to dismount the drive-letter-less "System Restore" partition for an unknown reason; USBDLM doesn't try to dismount this volume anymore

V4.8.9.8 (15 June 2015)

Bugfix: PnP Manager errors in Windows XP's EventLog because USBDLM unregistered devicenotifications too late on service stop
Bugfix: With Windows AutoMount disabled USBDLM did not bring volumes online even there is a valid DriveLetters section for it
Bugfix: MD5 check for open= worked only with uppercase MD5 hashes

V4.8.9.7 (10 May 2015)

Bugfix: Drive letter of iPods and ignored devices was removed by USBDLM since V4.8.6

V4.8.9.6 (29 March 2015)

Bugfix: UsbWriteProtect did not work if the registry key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies doesn't exist

V4.8.9.5 (09 March 2015)

New: Limits of AutoRun delay, wait etc. increased to 24h; time units can be used, e.g. 10s instead of 10000
New: Letters by Time can be defined using multiple times
New: Letters by Time can be defined depending on the weekday

V4.8.9.4 (15 February 2015)

Bugfix: Activation of potential BadUSB devices didn't always work
Bugfix: Windows since Vista with active UAC triggers a volume arrival event for TrueCrypt volume long after they had been mounted sometimes; Now USBDLM skips Balloontip and AutoRun here

V4.8.9.3 (02 February 2015)

Bugfix: Since V4.6.9.2 crash USBDLM when executing system event

V4.8.9.2 (01 February 2015)

Bugfix: Occasional crash USBDLM on arrival of a TrueCrypt volume

V4.8.9.1 (18 January 2015)

Bugfix: Occasional crash USBDLM on arrival of a volume
Bugfix: Removed access to generic floppy drives on USBDLM startup under XP

V4.8.9.0 (28 December 2014)

Bugfix: Since V4.8.4 virtual volumes not handled correctly under Vista+ with active UAC
Bugfix: Drive size in balloon tips now rounded to full Gigabytes again
New: Support for the TrueCrypt replacement VeraCrypt
New: UsbDriveInfo can add and remove NTFS mountpoints

V4.8.8.8 (10 November 2014)

Bugfix: On creation of the initial USBDLM.INI the line NoMediaNoLetter=0 was written twice
New: DeleteSviFolder works under other Windows versions than XP

V4.8.8.7 (14 October 2014)

Bugfix: Keep Alive sectionname was documented wrong as DriveKeepAlive, correct is DiskKeepAlive
Bugfix: USBDLM sometimes created unnecessary no-letter entries in the MountManager database

V4.8.8.6 (12 October 2014)

Bugfix: On AutoRun of CMD and BAT files (e.g. open="C:\Batch\test.cmd") no params passed since V4.8.8.0
Bugfix: Holding the Shift key pressed to skip AutoRuns did not work since Vista; "Solution": Force=1 is default now under Vista+ (Shift key ignored) and USBDLM_usr.exe is asked for the Shift key state if Force=0 is set for an open line
Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo x64 showed several debug information not intended for end users
Bugfix: Balloontip text for multiple partitions was used even there is only one partition with a volume
New: Keep Alive for drives

V4.8.8.5 (19 September 2014)

Bugfix: In some situations no letter was assigned, no autoruns executed and balloon tips not shown
Bugfix: Multiple FIXED drives attached at the same controller no more shown in a common balloon tip

V4.8.8.4 (17 September 2014)

Bugfix: In some situations autoruns wasn't executed and balloon tips not shown

V4.8.8.3 (27 August 2014)

Bugfix: Crash on very long volume kernelnames

V4.8.8.2 (21 August 2014)

Bugfix: Handling of potential "BadUSB" devices did not work under Vista+ unless a [OnDeviceArrival] section is present
Bugfix: Since V4.6 letters in [NetworkLetters] did not overrule letters in [DriveLetters] sections (as documented)

V4.8.8.1 (19 August 2014)

Bugfix: Since V4.8.8.0 the logfile was always written to C:\_USBDLM.LOG
Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo did not read USBDLM.INI changes on refresh

V4.8.8.0 (17 August 2014)

Bugfix: Since V4.8.7 the USB port criteria was not reliable
Bugfix: Since V4.8.7 newly attached volumes not handled correctly if the was other volume with an identical device ID attached before
Bugfix: Since V4.8.7 on arrival of a drive the drive letter was removed for a short moment even is was not required
Bugfix: Since V4.5.9 OnUserLogon section executed for the first user only logged on at the same time
Bugfix: When registering as Windows service by means of the Windows API function CreateService USBDLM passed the path to the USBDLM.exe in the parameter lpBinaryPathName unquoted even it contains spaces. Despite the name of the parameter the Service Control Manager resolves it as a command line, thus with C:\Program Files\USBDLM\USBDLM.exe it would execute an existing C:\Program.exe with system privileges. The MSI did it right. USBDLM corrects the path without a reinstall.
New: Setting SafeCommandLines to reject ambiguous open= command lines
New: UsbDriveInfo warns for command lines which contain spaces but the executable not quoted
New: "BadUSB" blocking: On arrival of an USB keyboard or network device USBDLM can ask the user if this is ok

V4.8.7.0 (29 June 2014)

Bugfix: Since V4.8.0 crash USBDLM on logout when a virtual volume (Subst, Network or TrueCrypt drive) is present and on some other occasions
New: UsbDriveInfo keeps device which are prepared for safe removal in the list
New: UsbDriveInfo detect media changes by means of Windows notification messages instead of polling once a second
New: Under Windows 7 and higher UsbDriveInfo can attach and detach VHDs, under XP and Vista if VHDmount from Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 is installed in its default folder, thus the vhdmount.dll is found in %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Virtual Server\Vhdmount

V4.8.6.0 (24 April 2014)

Bugfix: Several causes for crashes since V4.8.0 fixed
New: USBDLM variable %DateISO%, e.g. 2014-04-14
New: USBDLM tries on arrival of a disk device to give the mount manager data for the volume. This prevents Windows from assigning a drive letter which USBDLM then has to change. Since Windows 8 this does not work because it assigns the drive letter too fast. At least USBDLM can remove a wrong letter earlier and assign the right one later as usual. Does not work with GPT partitioned drives.
New: VolumeSize, VolumeSerial and DeviceType TrueCrypt are determined by means of the partition information instead of the volume information -> prevents delays sometimes
New: On arrival the volumes are no more accessed unless required to gather information to test for defined criteria; Results sometimes in faster arrivals
New: UsbDriveInfo command-line params -rv -rd -rb to save a report of view Volumes, Drives or BusTypes (upper case R writes Unicode file, lower case Ansi)
Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo reports was cut at 32KB
Bugfix: Since V4.7.3 UsbDriveInfo crashed if USBDLM is installed on a non-NTFS formatted drive
New: UsbDriveInfo can change drive letters when started with admin privileges

V4.8.5.0 (29 January 2014)

Bugfix: Since V4.8.2 USBDLM Friendly Names did not work as DeviceID criteria
Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo did not show network drives in the BusTypes view

V4.8.4.0 (28 January 2014)

Bugfix: Since V4.8.0 USBDLM might crash with NoMediaNoLetter>0
New: UsbDriveInfo with BusTypes view

V4.8.3.0 (23 January 2014)

Bugfix: Since V4.8.0 USBDLM crashed on arrival of a drive which does not respond within 2 seconds
Bugfix: Bugfix: Crash UsbDriveInfo if started without a USBDLM.INI
Bugfix: Command interface returned errors on success

V4.8.2.0 (12 January 2014)

Bugfix: Since V4.8 crash after many arrivals+removals of a drive
Bugfix: Using the command interface could cause CPU load and massive logging
Bugfix: OnServiceStart did not work
Bugfix: Since V4.8 UsbDriveInfo might show wrong INI sections

V4.8.1.0 (27 December 2013)

Bugfix: Balloontip for U3 drives often showed only one drive in V4.8.0.0

V4.8.0.0 (25 December 2013)

Bugfix: Checking drive letters on startup of the USBDLM service did not work for non-USB drives if the drive's BusType was not obvious, e.g. a SATA drive with a DeviceID SCSI\...
Bugfix: AutoRun MD5 check did not work after V4.2.1
Bugfix: Drives configured in [IgnoreDevices] got the drive letter assigned by Windows removed
Bugfix: Ignoring the Apple iPod did not work
New: Events [OnDiskArrival], [OnDiskRemovalRequest], [OnDiskRemoval] for disks, e.g. without partitions or with unknown partitions
New: Command interface for restricted users to flush the file cache, dismount, safely remove hardware, etc
New: UsbDriveInfo output rearranged and extended
New: UsbDriveInfo shows criteria good for Copy&Paste to the USBDLM.INI (Options -> Show USBDLM criteria)
New: UsbDriveInfo resolves the container of TrueCrypt volumes and can "eject" them
Removed: Support of Windows 2000

V4.7.3.2 (09 June 2013)

Bugfix (again): Crash on some computers

V4.7.3.1 (22 May 2013)

Bugfix: Crash on some computers

V4.7.3 (20 May 2013)

Bugfix: Crash if user is member of a huge number of user groups (~ >100)
New: ListUsbDrives command-line tool replaced by UsbDriveInfo GUI tool; ListUsbDrives is still available standalone
New: The criteria UserGroup accepts group SIDs too
New: Group membership is determined in a different way (now based upon the user's access token); This should work with cached credentials and NetUserGroups=1 is no more required
New: DeviceType "WindowsRecovery" for Windows Recovery partitions
New: USBDLM ensures that USBDLM.EXE and INI are writable to admins only
New: _edit-ini.cmd for opening the USBDLM.INI with admin privileges

V4.7.2 (10 April 2013)

New: Output of programs started hidden or as "LocalSystem" is redirected to the log-file
Bugfix: Crash with more than 160 drives of one class
Bugfix: USB-Portname not determined when the drive is part of a USB composite device
Bugfix: Crash on removal of a drive if its VolumeName could not be determined on arrival
Bugfix: Crash UsbDriveInfo if a partition has an alignment >= 4 GB
Bugfix: When attaching a USB floppy drive a wrong balloontip was shown for a moment

V4.7.1.51 beta (18 September 2012)

Bugfix: Crash on arrival of a drive who's VolumeName cannot be determined

V4.7.1.50 beta (17 September 2012)

Bugfix: Crash on removal of a drive who's VolumeName could not be determined on arrival
Bugfix: Warning on USBDLM.INI in the "Virtual Store" of Vista/Win7/Win8 did not work
Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo did not show the USBDLM service status without admin privileges

V4.7.1.0 (09 Sept 2012)

Bugfix: After standby or hibernation drives without a media was removed from USBDLM's internal drivelist; as a result OnRemovalRequest and OnRemoval events did not work anymore
Bugfix: On Windows 2000 OnArrival and balloon tips did not work with some devices
Bugfix: No Balloontips for TrueCrypt volumes with ShowTrueCrypt=1 and ShowVirtual=0
Bugfix: AutoRuns sometimes not executed on system start if AutoRunOnLogon=1 and AutoRunOnStartup=0
New: Letters by Disk Signature
New: StaticLetters - drive letter which USBDLM will never change. This way you can still assign certain drive letters by means of the Windows Disk Management
New: DeviceType OtfeVolume for virtual drives created by FreeOTFE
New: In OnDeviceArrival sections all criteria not related to a new drive are available
New: Deleting the System Volume Information folder works on NTFS drives
New: Some optimizations

V4.7.0.0 (15 Jan 2012)

Bugfix: Criteria MaxTimeSinceBoot did not work
New: Letters by USB-Port works with non USB drives by generating a port name from the location string
New: Letters by Operating System Version
New: deviceid text files are cached instead of being read each time
New: UsbDriveInfo shows (when started with -a) active filter drivers for drives and their device classes
New: UsbDriveInfo shows partition and FAT cluster alignment
New: Warning balloon-tip when a drive with GUID partition table (GPT) is attached on XP or Windows 2000

V4.6.9.2 (08 Oct 2011)

Bugfix: Since V4.6 autorun.inf open usually did not work
New: Timeout for criteria FileExists, DirExists can be configured
New: Registry setting for USB WriteProtect can be set

V4.6.9.1 (11 Sept 2011)

Bugfix: Since V4.6 the external deviceids.txt file worked as Unicode only
New: Some time criteria
New: Win7 BusTypes Virtual and VirtualFileBackedVirtual

V4.6.8.3 (10 July 2011)

Bugfix: Since V4.6 crash on install if WriteLogFile=1 and the log file cannot be created, e.g. due to missing privileges, invalid path, etc
Bugfix: Crash when FileExists criteria is evaluated on system and device events

V4.6.8.2 (19 June 2011)

Bugfix: Since V4.6 Firewire drives had a crippled FriendlyName, e.g. in the BalloonTip

V4.6.8.1 (08 June 2011)

Bugfix: Some function stopped working after a while in V4.6.8.0

V4.6.8 (05 June 2011)

Bugfix: Criteria UserGroup did not work on some Vista/Win7 installations since V4.6

V4.6.7 (30 May 2011)

Bugfix: Passwords did not work under Vista/Win7 since V4.6

V4.6.6 (27 May 2011)

Bugfix: Section NetworkLetters/ExcludedLetters had no effect since V4.6

V4.6.5 (15 May 2011)

Bugfix: Since V4.6 possible crash on arrival of multiple network or subst drives at the same time
New: Setting VirtualVolumes for deactivating USBDLM dealing with virtual drives (Network, Subst, TrueCrypt and other user specific drives)

V4.6.4 (26 April 2011)

Bugfix: Some small fixes

V4.6.3 (21 March 2011)

Bugfix: Setting USB drives to the policy "Optimize for speed" and activating the write cache worked only, if the drive's registry key "Classpnp" was already present, which is the case only if the removal policy was manually changed before
New: New variable %PureVolumeName% gives something like Volume{06588842-39a4-11e0-8027-806d6172696f} which is useful when dealing with tools like DD which want to see volume names like \\.\Volume{06588842-39a4-11e0-8027-806d6172696f}

V4.6.2 (15 March 2011)

Bugfix: Since V4.6 settings from the registry did not work correctly

V4.6.1 (23 Feb 2011)

Bugfix: Since V4.6 no balloon tips under Windows Server 2008 and under Window Vista and Windows 7 if the UAC is deactivated

V4.6.0 (20 Feb 2011)

New: Changeover to Unicode: USBDLM.INI, BalloonTips, file names etc have no more problems with codepages and charsets
New: OnUserActivated and OnUserDeactivated system events
New: Explorer Icon and Label can be defined in the volume's DriveLetters section
New: Executable files are searched for first in the Windows search path (the PATH environment variable) and then in the working directory
New: OnArrival for network and subst drives
New: The FileExists criteria sees user drives (as network, subst and TrueCrypt drives)
New: The drive letter can be directly extracted from the Volume Label to the new variable %LetterFromLabel% which can be configured as drive letter
New: UsbDriveInfo shows started with parameter -v all USBDLM-~~variables~~{linkID=}
New: USBDLM can activate the ~~write cache for USB drives~~{linkID=6}
New: x64 MSI is available
New: USBDLM.WXS file is provided for creating MSI file by means of the Microsoft WIX toolset, see ~~Creating an MSI~~{linkID=135}

V4.5.9 (20 Feb 2011)

BugFix: Since V4.5.1 USBDLM stopped working under very rare conditions which is if all the following is true: USB drive attached which is recognized as cardreader, an [Explorer] section is used, no [OnArrival], no [OnRemovalRequest] and no [OnRemoval] for this drive is configured

V4.5.8 (17 November 2010)

Bugfix: Sicce V4.5 USB floppy drives got a high letter assigned instead of keeping them at A: or B:
Bugfix: Since V4.5.3 USBDLM changed the Windows timer resolution from 10 or 15 ms to 1 ms - the result might be a slighly higher power consumption of the CPU

V4.5.7 (6 November 2010)

Bugfix: Since V4.5.3 registry settings did not work
Bugfix: Since V4.5.3 INI settings did not work if the last section name is unknown

V4.5.6 (14 October 2010)

Bugfix: With five or more drives in the balloon tip the word "drives" was missing in V4.5.5
New: Multiple DeviceArrival events for the same device are ignored

V4.5.5 (12 October 2010)

Bugfix: OnDeviceArrival did not work with USBDLM V4.5.4
New: Some grammar for Slavonic language balloon tips

V4.5.4 (10 September 2010)

Bugfix: With USBDLM V4.5.3 OnBalloonClick stopped working after standby or hibernation

V4.5.3 (5 September 2010)

Bugfix: USBDLM prevented roaming user profiles written back to the server on user logoff or shutdown
Bugfix: Text_mounted_to_plr for the balloon tips works now
New: Dock and Undock ~~system events~~{linkID=94}
New: Handling large USBDLM.INI files accelerated
New: Some optimization

V4.5.2 (1 August 2010)

Bugfix: Again problems with Balloontips for devices with quotation marks in the name
Bugfix: OnArrival sections sometimes executed twice
Bugfix: Delay on startup of the USBDLM service removed
Bugfix: USBDLM timeout error in the Windows Event Log on some slowly starting systems
Bugfix: non responding drives was not tested again, so their OnArrival section was not executed
Bugfix: BitLocker drives sometimes not detected as such
Bugfix: Several fixes for Windows 2000
New: Letters by ~~Computer Name~~{linkID=72}
New: Letters by running ~~process~~{linkID=73}
New: UsbDriveInfo shows USB 3.0 Super Speed

V4.5.1 (13 June 2010)

Bugfix: On resume from standby or hibernation non responding card readers got assigned a drive letter even they should not because of NoMediaNoLetter=1
Bugfix: When dismounting a TrueCrypt volume in an OnRemovalRequest section then the removal message for the TrueCrypt volume was not processed by USBDLM; in result no OnArrival and autorun.inf was processed on next arrival of this TrueCrypt volume
Bugfix: The password dialog was not shown on some systems
Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo tool crashed with latest usb.id file
New: ~~Password~~{linkID=80} can be received with an anonymous logon

V4.5.0 (9 May 2010)

New: Multiple AutoRun sections on ~~system events~~{linkID=94}
New: Vista ~~Scan and Fix~~{linkID=122} can be suppressed
New: ~~Passwords~~{linkID=80} for drives
New: ~~AutoRun~~{linkID=90} works for remote users
New: ~~AutoRun~~{linkID=93} for other devices than drives

V4.4.2 (13 December 2009)

Bugfix: Variable %UsbSerial% was empty since V4.4.0
Bugfix: Drive letter swapping on startup not performed when the USBDLM service started after the user's logon
Bugfix: FileExists when used with wildcards worked only when exactly one file was found
New: Swapping driveletters on startup can deal with more than two letters

V4.4.1 (11 November 2009)

Bugfix: Hiding drives from the "~~Safely Remove Hardware~~{linkID=99}" might not work under Vista, under Window 7 it still does and will not work for "Removable" drives
Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo always showed a warning about a USBDLM.INI in the Vista/Win7 virtual store
Bugfix: Delay on service startup on some systems removed
Bugfix: Close button on the BalloonTip might be drawn incomplete under XP

V4.4.0 (1 November 2009)

Bugfix: ~~BusTypes~~{linkID=64} in list notation (e.g. BusTypes=USB,SCSI) didn't work
Bugfix: Deactivating ~~System Restore~~{linkID=120} for new drives didn't work
Bugfix: OnArrival did not work for drives with no media present, even MinDiskSize=- was configured
Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo now shows all sections effective for a drive
New: x64 version available
New: Determining USB port names causes no more delays
New: Startup of the USBDLM service accelerated
New: Additional search path ~~for executables~~{linkID=90}
New: Alternative notation of the ~~USB Port Name~~{linkID=44}
New: Letters by ~~USB-Port~~{linkID=44} much faster now
New: Label and Icon from ~~autorun.inf~~{linkID=90} files can be used
New: From autorun.inf on x64 systems the section [autorun.amd64] is read first
New: autorun.inf can be read even redirected by IniFileMapping
New: VolumeSerial criteria can be used with wildcards
New: "~~BitLocker To Go"~~{linkID=97} encrypted drives are recognized as such

V4.3.2 (7 July 2009)

Bugfix: When only NTFS mountpoints are configured in a section then an assigned drive letter was not removed
Bugfix: Text color in the balloon tips always black even configured different in Windows
Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo shows for harddrives and removable drives the correct "Disk DosDevName" (so far it showed the PDO name)
New: On startup USBDLM can swap drive letters in some situations if required
New: Section numbers from 1 to 9 can be noted as 01 .. 09, e.g. [DriveLetters01]
New: Items Letter, Letters, Letter1 bis Letter9 - all understand all formats (single letter, list of letters, mountpoint, INI file)

V4.3.1 (1 June 2009)

Bugfix: Delay on Windows standby / hibernation removed
Bugfix: Slow responding drives handled more tolerant
Bugfix: Firewire drives have again the short, "handmade" name in the balloon tip

V4.3.0 (30 April 2009)

Bugfix: Volume Label sometimes not read after media change under Vista. The Windows Explorer had the same problem, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943632
New: UsbDriveInfo shows the sections from the USBDLM.INI which are used for a drive
New: Faster operation by gathering required drive information only
New: Multiple ~~NTFS folders~~{linkID=5} can be assigned as mount points, also in addition to a drive letter
New: In sections ~~[OnArrival]~~{linkID=90}, OnRemoval etc up to 10 commands can be executed (open1 to open9 and the known open)
New: ~~[OnArrival]~~{linkID=90} and AutoRun.inf for TrueCrypt volumes
New: When a ~~DeviceID~~{linkID=39} is configured then the BusType for non USB drives can be omitted, same for the DriveType e.g. for CDROM drives
New: ~~[OnArrival]~~{linkID=90} can start a program under Vista with full rights ("elevated")
New: Criteria ~~UserIsAdmin~~{linkID=71} is under Vista related to the "elevated" user, so it is 1 for an Admin under UAC
New: Criteria for ~~absence of a file~~{linkID=69} (FileNotExists)
New: ~~[OnRemovalFailed]~~{linkID=91} is executed asynchronousely to avoid event ping pong when using RemoveDrive
New: ~~AutoRun on System Events~~{linkID=94}
New: Handling of first time arrivals under Windows 2000 optimized
New: Using ~~[OnArrival]~~{linkID=90}, OnRemoval etc there is the new default criterion MinDiskSize=1, so a media must be present
New: Drive letters can be checked ~~[on resume]~~{linkID=6} from standby and hibernation mode
New: Drive letters by ~~Volume Serial Number~~{linkID=52}
New: Drive description for USB drives in the menu of "~~Safely Remove Hardware~~{linkID=99}"
New: Balloons under Vista in almost correct design
New: Balloons with fade out effect and shadow (if activated in the Windows settings)
New: Using USBDLM ~~Variables~~{linkID=} for environment variables can (and should) be configured in detail
New: Section [ExcludedLetters] renamed to ~~[NetworkLetters]~~{linkID=14}

V4.2.5 (29th March 2009)

Bugfix: Crippled BalloonTip if quotation mark in device name
Bugfix: Sometimes wrong size in BalloonTip and UsbDriveInfo
Bugfix: The execution of the ~~autorun.inf~~{linkID=90} open line was in V4.2.4 (again) by default made with removed admin privileges (AutoRunInfRestricted was on by default)

V4.2.4 (3rd December 2008)

Bugfix: The execution of ~~[OnArrival]~~{linkID=90} failed when the path contained spaces and command-line parameters are used
Bugfix: The execution of ~~[OnArrival]~~{linkID=90} failed when the arrived drive has no mountpoint and no WorkDir is specified
Bugfix: Under Windows 2000 the ~~port names~~{linkID=44} of USB1 devices attached to USB2 ports where not determined

V4.2.3 (14th September 2008)

Bugfix: The execution of ~~[OnArrival]~~{linkID=90} could be suppressed by holding the Shift key even Force=1 is set
Bugfix: The execution of the ~~autorun.inf~~{linkID=90} open line was by default made with removed admin privileges (AutoRunInfRestricted was on by default)
Bugfix: ~~[NoMediaNoLetterInclude]~~{linkID=29} didn't work in most cases

V4.2.2 (17th August 2008)

Bugfix: ~~[OnArrival]~~{linkID=90}, ~~[OnRemoval]~~{linkID=91} works again without configuring a workdir when the drive has no mountpoint
Bugfix: ~~[OnRemoval]~~{linkID=91} works again without configuring a workdir
Bugfix: ~~[OnRemoval]~~{linkID=91} is triggered on removal of a media from a card reader
Bugfix: New ~~BusType~~{linkID=64}s SD and MMC
Bugfix: Virtual drives of the Vista's "Volume Shadow Copy" will not get a drive letter assigned
Bugfix: Delay on Windows shutdown removed

V4.2.1 (19th April 2008)

Bugfix: On ~~autorun.inf, [OnArrival] etc~~{linkID=90} the root of the drive is the working directory again

V4.2.0 (12thApril 2008)

Bugfix: problems with NTFS mountpoint longer than 51 chars fixed
Bugfix: AutoRun programs did not become the active window under Vista
New/Bugfix: unavailable network drives considered
New: ~~NoMediaNoLetter~~{linkID=29} works under Windows 2000
New: most settings take effect without restarting the USBDLM service
New: ~~Wildcards~~{linkID=115} can be used configuring several parameters
New: drives can be completely ~~ignored~~{linkID=105}
New: drives and other devices can be removed from or added to the ~~safely remove hardware~~{linkID=99} facility
New: the policy ~~"Optimized for performance"~~{linkID=6} can be set for USB drives
New: on ~~AutoRun~~{linkID=90} USBDLM variables can be made available to the executed program as environment variables
New: on ~~AutoRun~~{linkID=90} programs can be executed without admin privileges (if the current user is an admin)
New: obsolete NTFS mountpoints can be removed on startup

V4.1.0 (19th October 2007)

Bugfix: Last line in the USBDLM.INI had been ignored when fewer than two empty line at the end
Bugfix: Even with NoMediaNoLetter=0 USBDLM registered for some notifications. Under Vista64 this prevented drives from being 'prepared for safe removal'
Bugfix: OnRemoval works now on removal of a card from a card reader
Bugfix: USBDLM service no more marked as 'interactive' under Vista which caused warnings in the syslog
Workaround: ~~NoMediaNoLetter~~{linkID=29} works under Vista64
New: ~~NoMediaNoLetter~~{linkID=29} can be configured more detailed
New: ~~NoMediaNoLetter~~{linkID=29} can be forced for certain drives by a section [NoMediaNoLetterInclude] (analog to [NoMediaNoLetterExclude])
New: Drive letters in ~~short notation~~{linkID=4}, like Letters=R,X,Y,Z
New: User=- as criterion for 'no user logged on'

V4.0.2 (21th August 2007)

Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo output had Unix style end of line marks (CR only) instead of DOS style (CF+LF) and Notepad cannot show this
Bugfix: AutoRun events for drives without a drive letter did work only when an addtional criterion Letter=- was configured
Bugfix: Under Windows 2000 partition numbers and balloon tips didn't work correctely for hard drives with multiple partitions

V4.0.1 (20th July 2007)

Bugfix: ExcludedLetter didn't work
Bugfix: ListUsbDrives required admin privileges to show all information

V4.0.0 (15th July 2007)

New: new, more simple, but incompatible format for the USBDLM.INI
New: drive letters depending on the logged on user's name, group or its admin status
New: drive letters depending on some new criteria
New: AutoRuns on media instertion (CD/DVD too)
New: AutoRuns depending on several criteria (as volume label, drive letter, device id and others)
New: AutoRuns on removal request and after removal of a drive
New: BalloonTip texts in several languages
New: Runs on balloon click
New: Explorer default icon and label depending criteria
New: Drive events into the Windows system log

V3.4.2 (9th May 2007)

Bugfix: multiple wrong drive letters shown in balloon tip when hardware detection incomplete
Bugfix: detection of U3 drives improved

V3.4.1 (1st May 2007)

- Bugfix: V3.4.0 bases upon an old codebase - please update to this version. All the new features promised for V3.4.0 now really work.

- Bugfix: open= in autorun.inf works too if the file to execute is located on the attached drive

V3.4.0 (18th April 2007)

New: drive letters by size can use the size of the disk instead of the partition
New: drive letter depending on the volume label ("drive name")
New: USBDLM.INI on the attached drive for non USB drives too
New: device IDs for [DriveLettersDeviceIDx] optionally from external file
New: settings optionally in the registry instead the INI

V3.3.1 (20th March 2007)

Bugfix: Possible crash on machines more that one CPU core or with HyperThreading
Bugfix: Errorlevel on installation with -silentinstall was still swapped - now 0 on success
New/Fix: Removal of drive letters for NoMediaNoLetter is done with some delay to prevent rare problems with Win Explorer
New/Fix: Shell notification about assigned drive letter done with some delay to fix problems with Win Explorer's folder tree view

V3.3.0 (8th Feb. 2007)

Bugfix: Errorlevel on installation was swapped - now 0 on success
New: Problem with AutoRun under Vista and Windows 2000 fixed
New: Installation, deinstallation, start und stop request admin privileges if required
New: ~~AutoRun~~{linkID=4} can be secured by a key
New: non USB card readers stay untouched - too much trouble
New: no assignment of a new drive letter for drives/partitions without a drive letter when it is a TrueCrypt container
New: Lots of Finetuning :-)
New: instead of the approved HLP format the help is provided as CHM because Vista doesn't support HLP anymore

V3.2.0 (11th Dec. 2006)

Bugfix: DeleteMountpointOnRemoval didn't work since V3.0
New: 'no letter' can be configured to get rid of certain drives or to prevent users from using them
New: drive letters can be configured by drive's device ID sting
New: balloon tips can be disabled for certain drives

Note: This version had a wrong version number '3.1.6.1' until 6th Jan. 2006.

V3.1.0 (6th Nov. 2006)

Bugfix: Balloontips didn't work for the second user when Fast User Switching is used under XP and always under Vista
Bugfix: Autorun function started programs in the context 'LocalSystem' instead of the current user's context
New: drive letters for USB floppy drives

V3.0.3 (22th Oct. 2006)

Bugfix: USBDLM V3.0.2 crashed with NoMediaNoLetter=1
Bugfix: detection of conflicts with network shares and subst drives didn't work sometimes
New: detects card readers with two slots as mults-slot cardreader if they have 'reader' in their device name
New: should detect IDE and PCI card readers

V3.0.2 (16th Oct. 2006)

Bugfix: USB floppy drives lost their drive letter when attached without inserted media

V3.0.1 (7th Oct. 2006)

Executing AutoRun and RunOnArrival the new drive is set as current folder so programs or batch files are found there

V3.0.0 (3rd Oct. 2006)

All drive letter ~~settings~~{linkID=6} are applied now on startup too
new funktion of section ~~[ExcludedLetters]~~{linkID=14}: These letter will never be used anymore for USB drives
Read additional [ExcludedLetters] from a central USBDLM.INI
detects and handles ~~U3 autorun drives~~{linkID=54}
Execution of the open= line in an autorun.inf on removable drives
Global AutoRun on arrival of any USB or Firewire drive
~~Balloon-Tips~~{linkID=6} with information about the assigned letters

V2.4.4 (7th Sept. 2006)

Adaption: USB devices with two drives are no longer seen as multi-slot cardreader. The limit is three drives now because there are USB pen drives with two independent drives

V2.4.3 (28th August 2006)

Bugfix: Under Windows 2000 you got 'insert disk' error messages when a USB drive without media is attached
New/Fix: service name changed from 'USB Drive Letter Manager' to 'USBDLM'

V2.4.2 (16th June.2006)

Bugfix: V2.4.1 didn't start on some machines when booting
can write a logfile for debugging
can act as 'eject server' for the command-line tool EjectMedia

V2.4.1 (11th June 2006)

USB floppy drives are ignored
problem with double created mount points for multi-slot card readers fixed
misspelled service name corrected ('USB drive letter mananger')
corrected errorlevels after -install and -silentinstall

V2.4 (21st May 2006)

can detect drives which got no mount point at all and assigns the first free letter (if nothing else it configured)
can delete mount points (NTFS folders) when the mounted drive is removed
mounting to NTFS folders by device name or disk name
drive letters for USB CD and DVD drives

V2.3 (5th May 2006)

New: can detect network shares of the currently logged on user, so when Windows assigns the letter of a network share USBDLM remounts it to the next letter that is really available, even nothing is configured

V2.2.2 (18th April 2006)

Improvement: Works with drives too that need more than 10 seconds between attachment and appearance of the drive letter

V2.2.1 (2nd April 2006)

Bugfix: works again under Windows 2000 (V2.2 didn't)

V2.2 (30th March 2006)

works with Windows Vista
scan for c't USB Agent deactivated by default

V2.1 (19th March 2006)

drive letter assignment depending on the USB port for USB drives too that appear as 'Local drive'
remount of multislot cardreader's slots to letters too

V2.0 (14th March 2006)

drive letter assignment depending on the USB port (for removable drives only)
remount of multi-slot card reader's slots to an NTFS folder
using empty NTFS folders as mount points instead of drive letters (experimental)

V1.1 (15th Jan. 2006)

Some timeouts made longer
Detection of USB and Firewire works under Windows 2000 too

V1.1.1 (17th Jan. 2006)

Stupid bug in the detection of USB and Firewire fixded that caused an access violation

V1.0 (10th Jan. 2006)

Allocation of drive letters depending on the size of the attached drive
Exclude list for drive letters to overrule a USBDLM.INI on the newly attached drive
Exclude list for volume labels
No remounting when a USBagent.inf is on the drive and the c't USB Agent is running
Freeware for private and nonprofit educational use only

V0.6 (15th Dec. 2005)

Check for a media in drive not longer done thru its volume serial number because drives often get no number by the vendor

V0.5 (24th Oct. 2005)

Handles drives only that are removable or hotplug devices

V0.4 (5th Sept. 2005)

Handles fixed drives too because there are USB flash drives with a drive type 'DRIVE_FIXED' instead of the usual 'DRIVE_REMOVABLE'

V0.3 (25th Aug. 2005)

First public version

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