Software Update: USB Drive Letter Manager 4.8.6.0

A new version of USB Drive Letter Manager has been released. This versatile program allows you to manage USB devices. For example, it is possible to assign drive letters only when a medium is inserted into the drive, which is useful for multi-card readers. You can also specify which drive letters may or may not be assigned, depending on the type of USB device, the size of the drive, the USB port used, and the name of the volume. In addition, the application indicates by means of a speech bubble in the system tray which device or volume has been added to the system with which drive letter. More information can be found in this instruction manual are being found. USB Drive Letter Manager is free for private and educational use, but companies and organizations are required to pay a fee. Since version 4.8.3.0, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 4.8.4.0

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

Changes in version 4.8.5.0

• 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

Changes in version 4.8.5.50 beta

• Bugfix: Since V4.7.3 UsbDriveInfo crashed if USBDLM is installed on a non-NTFS formatted drive

Changes in version 4.8.5.52 beta

• New: On arrival the volumes are no more accessed unless required to gather information to test for defined criteria; Results in faster arrivals

Changes in version 4.8.5.53 beta

• New: VolumeSize, VolumeSerial and DeviceType TrueCrypt are determined by means of the partition information instead of the volume information -> no more delays

Changes in version 4.8.5.54 beta

• Bug fix: Several causes for crashes fixed
• 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. Does not work for removable drives under XP because it is unknown how Windows builds the device ID of such volumes (something like STORAGEREMOVABLEMEDIA8&2CF9DF81&0&RM)

Changes in version 4.8.5.90 beta

• Bugfix: UsbDriveInfo reports was cut at 32KB
• New: UsbDriveInfo commandline params -rv -rd -rb to safe a report of view Volumes, Drives or BusTypes (upper case R writes Unicode file, lower case Ansi)
• New: USBDLM variable %DateISO%, eg 2014-04-14

Changes in version 4.8.6.0

• Bugfix: Several causes for crashes since V4.8.0 fixed
• New: USBDLM variable %DateISO%, eg 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 assing the right one later as usual
• 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 commandline 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 previleges

The following downloads are available:
USB Drive Letter Manager 4.8.6.0 (zip)
USB Drive Letter Manager 4.8.6.0 (msi)
USB Drive Letter Manager 4.8.6.0 (64bit, zip)
USB Drive Letter Manager 4.8.6.0 (64bit, msi)