DriveCleanup V1.2.

0 - removes non present drives from the device tree

Freeware by Uwe Sieber (c) 2007-2016
Works under Windows XP and higher only. Under x64 edtitions of Windows
only the x64 version works.

Removes from the device tree non present

- USB hubs
- USB mass storage devices
- USB Disk devices
- USB CDROM devices
- USB Floppy devices
- USB Storage Volumes
- USB WPD devices (Vista, Win7, Win8 and higher only)
and their registry items under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\UsbFlags
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints
2
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MountPoints
2\CPC\Volume
Usage:
DriveCleanup [-t] [-n] [-u] [-d] [-c] [-f] [-v] [-r]
no params: cleanup all
-t test mode
-n no wait for keypress when finished if started standalone
-u only USB mass storage devices
-d only USB Disk devices
-c only USB CDROM devices
-f only USB Floppy devices
-v only USB Storage Volume devices
-r only registry items of USB volumes
-w only USB WPD devices
Called with admin previleges and without a parameter it removes all types of dev
ices
listed above and cleans the registry.
Without admin previleges it switches to test mode and shows the item it would re
move.

Samples:
DriveCleanup -t
test mode, lists devices and registry items to remove
DriveCleanup
removes non present devices related to drives and their registry items
DriveCleanup -v -d
removes non present USB Storage Volumes and USB Disks
Administrator previleges are required for cleanup.

DriveCleanup isn't stricly limited to drives, USB hubs and the Enum\NextParentID
.xxxxx.n
values may be not drive related.
Deleteing automatically any type of non-present device seems to be too dangerous
, therefore
I've made a GUI tool for this, so it's up to the user not to delete something im
portant...
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/misc_tool_e.html#devicecleanup

DriveCleanup calls Windows device manangement functions for deleting devices ent
ries. If it shows OK
then Windows responded that this succeeded. When finished DriveCleanup checks al
l again and should
find zero devices if it showed OK for all before. Sometimes Windows says OK but
in fact the device
is still present.

Since Vista Administrators have no more write access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTE

M\CurrentControlSet\Enum
and even being the owner they have no right to change the permissions. Therefore
deleting unreferenced
NextParentID.xxxxx.n items needs more than admin previleges. To get these, Drive
Cleanup starts itself in
the SYSTEM context to change Enum's security descriptor, performs the cleanup an
d restores the security
descriptor. Maybe this alerts security software.

Licence: Freeware
Allowed:
- usage in any environment, including commercial
- include in software products, including commercial
- include on CD/DVD of computer magazines
Not allowed:
- modify any of the files
- offer for download by means of a "downloader" software

Uwe Sieber
Jan 2016