I am fascinated by portable applications and especially the application suite. The Word says that you should not remove the USB drive until the light stops flashing, mine never stops, if via the task bar it says can't stop, try again later. Later it is the same so I just pull the plug and so far all is well. What is the problem? how can I make the light go out?
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Go to google.com & search for Unlocker.exe, download and install. It will tell you what programs are holding the drive open.
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FYI, Unlocker is good and can sometimes tell you what program is holding up flash removal. But it doesn't always work for me.
Fairly frequently I get in a mode where my drive is supposedly in use but neither Unlocker nor Process Explorer show anything that using the drive. The only thing I can do is wait a minute or two and pull the drive.
What I have done is set the flash drive properties to Optimize for Quick Removal which should minimize/eliminate any problems with just pulling the drive.
Unlocker has worked very well for me for almost everything, but when it comes to finding out what's keeping my drive open, most of the time it shows nothing, and yet I'm not able to eject it correctly. What I do in that case (it was mentioned before on one of the other forums) is kill explorer.exe and start it again (there's another process that keeps the drive open that you might have to kill also, I don't remember which one though). Usually that does the trick. If that still does not work, screw it, I'm pulling it.
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Teen1: Oh, here comes that cannonball guy. He's cool.
Teen2: Are you being sarcastic, dude?
Teen1: I don't even know anymore.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
Fairly frequently I get in a mode where my drive is supposedly in use but neither Unlocker nor Process Explorer show anything that using the drive.
Process Explorer works perfectly.
Here's a linky for the OP.
www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx
Vintage!
http://www.auditmypc.com/process/unlocker.asp
Vintage!