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10 Oct 2011
View connected USB devices
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Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7, Windows Vista 64-bit
Manufacturer: NirSoft
Size: 64KB
Number of Downloads: 5018
Price: Free
This is the software publisher’s description.
You connect a couple of external USB hard drives, a firewire unit and your USB printer. However, disconnecting them is another matter. How do you know which device is installed, is assigned to a particular drive letter and more?
USBDeview is a small utility that lists all USB devices that currently connected to your computer, as well as all USB devices that you previously used. For each USB device, extended information is displayed: Device name/description, device type, serial number (for mass storage devices), the date/time that device was added, VendorID, ProductID, and more.
USBDeview also enables you to uninstall USB devices that you previously used, and disconnect USB devices that are currently connected to your computer. You can also use USBDeview on a remote computer, as long as you login to that computer with admin user.
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Do you agree?
More than enough information
I disagree with a previous commenter that there is too much information. There is a lot of information given about all USB items that have been connected. But this is displayed in a standard window which you can order on any of the fields. Thus a simple click on connected and I get the list ordered by connected - click again and the list reversed. Hence I can see what is connected. Also being able to save entries as text is a boon. I have had problems in the past when a particular USB device works on one m/c and not another. Here I can easily check components. I would say this is a tool for a techie and it will go into my toolbag.
Posted by: Alan Reiblein 01 Oct 2010
USBDeview - A Poor Choice To Display USB Properties
I have approximately 3 years of experience using the "USBDeview" program. During that time I have had three versions of the program installed on one or more of my computers. My use of the program has primarily been limited to a brief burst of activity shortly after a new version of the program is released and I have installed it on a computer. I have tried each new version hoping that the user interface and data display have been simplified. I have been disappointed in that this has not been the case. Not being able to remove data for no longer used USB devices is one of my main criticisms of the program. If "USBDeview" just showed the USB devices that are currently connected to to to the computer it could be a very useful utility. At times I find that being able to display a USB device's assigned drive letter, serial number, and manufacturer helpful. This is especially true when I use the same USB flash drive on multiple computers and try to keep a specific drive letter permanently associated with that device. However when one starts adding a number of new and old USB devices to a computer running the "USBDeview" program the detailed display becomes quite confusing. Having the program remember the product details of every USB device ever attached to computer (running the USBDeview program at the time) is a hindrance. Data on a device long since disposed of (such as a worn-out USB computer mouse) is distracting and useless. Using a single USB device over a period of time can also produce distracting data. As an example, I have had the same USB keyboard attached to my computer for over a year. I do not recall ever disconnecting the keyboard from the computer however maybe once or twice the keyboard has been disconnected for some forgotten reason. When I run the USBDeview program, the keyboard is displayed as twelve individual entries - with each entry displaying twenty columns of . There is way too much information for a single device. I might mention that will none of the entries shows the keyboard ever being disabled or removed from the computer - so why all of the entries? No serial number is given for any of the keyboard entries so I have no way of knowing, other than relying on my own memory, if I have used one or a number of different keyboards with my computer. I must have used a large number of different computer mice with computer during the past year because I have over two dozen entries representing who knows how many actual mice that I have had connected. In my opinion the display used by the "USBDeview" program is too busy and contains too much information to quickly find data for a specific device. Programs can be too feature-rich. For me "USBDeview" is an example of just such a program. In the end I find the USBDeview program of very limited usefulness on one of my computers. That particular computer has only had only a very few USB devices attached to it since I put it into service. The USBDeview program is next to useless for all of the computers that have had one or more mice and keyboards attached to them sometime during their service life. There are much better ways to extract information on a connected USB device than trying to ferret out what I am looking for using the USBDeview program.
Posted by: Jack Boyce 24 Jul 2010