Freeware USB Drive Menu System
There are a couple of great USB drive menu systems available online and I wanted to know more about how they worked. I find that one of the best ways for me to learn something new is to jump right in with both feet and get my hands dirty. I decided to write my own USB drive menu system.
The results of this experiment are documented in USB Drive Menu System. You can download and freely use this application on your USB drives that creates a menu system that resides in your system tray. It is completely customizable.
One other things about DCoT Menu is that it does not need to be shut down. It is “USB aware” and will close itself whenever the USB drive is removed. Just pull your USB drive and go!
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6 Responses to “Freeware USB Drive Menu System”
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javatard Says:
December 21st, 2006 at 6:47 pmYou have really inspired me to tinker with programming/scripting. As an entry level Support Assoc, assisting a Sys Admin, a lot of what you talk about has opened my eyes to how things could be done. I have even raised a few eyebrows!
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Tim Fehlman Says:
December 21st, 2006 at 9:05 pmjavatard,
I’m glad that you are starting to look at your job through new eyes. When we break out of old habits and start to view things from a different perspective, this is often when the light bulb goes on.I would encourage you to dive into some sort of scripting language. There are several really good ones to choose from, each with their own strengths. Pick one and make it your own!
And feel free to fire questions off to me. I’m always glad to help out where I can.
Tim
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Brent Says:
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:35 amWould you be interested in sharing the source? I have some ideas to build on what you are doing here.
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Tim Fehlman Says:
December 23rd, 2006 at 12:56 pmBrent,
I am going to keep this as freeware for the time being but I will release the source code for version 1 when I release version 2 which I am working on presently. I should have version 2 out withing a couple of months.Tim
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M_Hagen Says:
January 16th, 2007 at 5:02 pmIf you are going to put out a 2.0 version - I’d like to see a “Safely remove hardware” option. In all my searches I’ve never found a way to trigger the MS function that does this.
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Fairbod Says:
October 17th, 2007 at 5:48 pmM_Hagen create a shortcut on your USB Key to:
C:\Windowss\system32\RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll .This evokes “Safely Remove hardware”. Click the shortcut quit the key then Safely Remove hardware. A problem I had was when windows says “The Device cannot be stopped right now”. I found a program that solves this : USBSafelyRemove at www.safelyremove.com. I made a portable version totally “selfcontained” all I need to do is to get a script to place a copy to the desktop on insertion of the key. USBSafelyRemove is not free BTW . Anyone know of a method of doing the same thing?
