disk drive manager

Protect your PC from abusive use of removable media with 1st Disk Drive Protector.

1st Disk Drive Protector is an application that will easily help you enforce whether your users are allowed to use removable media or access your local drives.

You can not only hide, lock and prevent usage of local, network, Floppy and USB drives but also disable the AutoRun feature for them. This will let you significantly reduce the risk of unauthorized software installations and cluttering of local disk drives.

The design of the program offers you functionality in a very simple way. The main window of the program shows you all available drive letters in group boxes along with the settings you can apply to the drives that the letters represent.

You can hide and lock all the drive letters you do not normally use to prevent any inserted removable media from appearing and being accessible in My Computer. The AutoRun feature can be disabled for specific drives or drive types.

If you disable the AutoRun feature for drive types, you can, for example, disable the AutoRun feature for all USB drives, for all CD/DVD drives, for all RAM disks or for all removable HDD drives.

A password protection can be applied to the program to prevent your users form changing the security settings you enforce.

Here are some key features of "1st Disk Drive Protector":

· Hide your local, network, Floppy and USB drives.
· Disable access to your local, network, Floppy and USB drives.
· Disable the AutoRun feature for specific drives.
· Disable the AutoRun feature for chosen drive types.
· Password-protect this program to prevent unauthorized access to it.

Limitations:

· 30 day trial

Disk Drive Administrator - hide, lock and protect your local, network, Floppy and USB drives, and disable the AutoRun feature for them using this fabulously designed software. Functionality and simplicity is put in every corner of the program; intuitively understandable user interface gives you an ability to start using the program right out of the box without learning anything. All you need to do is to click on the checkboxes located within the group boxes representing individual drives. Another great feature you can use lets you disable the AutoRun feature based on drive types. This means you can disable, for instance, only all USB drives, regardless of the drive letters that can be associated with them. The program lets you protect itself from an unauthorized access by assigning a password that can be requested on each program start.

Hide and lock your local, network, Floppy and USB drives as well as disable the AutoRun feature for specific drive types with this password-protected security utility. Fabulously designed, Disk Drive Security offers you both a great functionality and simplicity in a very elegant manner. The main window of the program groups the main settings by drives, and shows you all possible drive letters. If you do not want the removable media to appear and be accessible in My Computer after it is inserted, just hide and lock all the drive letters you do not normally use. Disk Drive Security can also be used to protect your local drives. For example, by hiding your system drive you can prevent your users from vandalizing your system files and saving garbage to it. The AutoRun feature can be disabled for specific drives or drive types. If you disable the AutoRun feature for drive types, you can, for example, disable the AutoRun feature for all USB drives, for all CD/DVD drives, for all RAM disks or for all removable HDD drives. A password protection can be applied to the program to prevent your users form changing the security settings you enforce.

Protect your PC from abusive use of removable media with 1st Disk Drive Protector. This software will easily help you enforce whether your users are allowed to use removable media or access your local drives. You can not only hide, lock and prevent usage of local, network, Floppy and USB drives but also disable the AutoRun feature for them. This will let you significantly reduce the risk of unauthorized software installations and cluttering of local disk drives. The design of the program offers you functionality in a very simple way. The main window of the program shows you all available drive letters in group boxes along with the settings you can apply to the drives that the letters represent. You can hide and lock all the drive letters you do not normally use to prevent any inserted removable media from appearing and being accessible in My Computer. The AutoRun feature can be disabled for specific drives or drive types. If you disable the AutoRun feature for drive types, you can, for example, disable the AutoRun feature for all USB drives, for all CD/DVD drives, for all RAM disks or for all removable HDD drives. A password protection can be applied to the program to prevent your users form changing the security settings you enforce.

Protect your PC from abusive use of removable media with 1st Disk Drive Protector. This software will easily help you enforce whether your users are allowed to use removable media or access your local drives. You can not only hide, lock and prevent usage of local, network, Floppy and USB drives but also disable the AutoRun feature for them. This will let you significantly reduce the risk of unauthorized software installations and cluttering of local disk drives. The design of the program offers you functionality in a very simple way. The main window of the program shows you all available drive letters in group boxes along with the settings you can apply to the drives that the letters represent. You can hide and lock all the drive letters you do not normally use to prevent any inserted removable media from appearing and being accessible in My Computer. The AutoRun feature can be disabled for specific drives or drive types. If you disable the AutoRun feature for drive types, you can, for example, disable the AutoRun feature for all USB drives, for all CD/DVD drives, for all RAM disks or for all removable HDD drives. A password protection can be applied to the program to prevent your users form changing the security settings you enforce.

Pen Drive Manager allows you to automatically copy files from your pen drive or synchronise your pen drive with a local folder.

With Pen Drive Manager you can:

- Copy all pen drive files to a new folder every time the drive is connected
- Synchronise a local folder with the pen drive contents
- Two-way synchronise a local folder and the pen drive contents

Network Drive Manager brings added value to users that access network drives in a computer network, ranging from small home networks to large corporate networks.

Network Drive Manager is a dedicated Windows software for managing network drives. During Windows logon it will reconnect the network drives that were configured using NDM, where after theyre kept alive to prevent deactivation.

In case NDM is started before any network connection is available (this is usually the case when Windows on a computer) a reconnect mechanism with a short interval is used until all network drives are connected where after reconnect mechanism with a longer interval is put in place.

Optionally it can launch applications or documents when all network drives have been successfully connected.

Windows does not properly reconnect network drives after logon that have been configured using Map Network Drive in Windows Explorer with the "Reconnect at logon" feature checked. Although theyre visible in Windows Explorer, they are usually not activated.

This causes problems when e.g. a network drive is used as a central location to store documents and/or settings. Applications that use these documents and/or settings stored on the network drive will complain or even fail to start because the network location is not accessible.

Even if the network drive would have been reconnected properly, the next problem is that Windows will deactivate the network drive (i.e. make it inaccessible) if it is not accessed for a while. This can result in complaining applications because theyre unable to write their data to disk, and it can even result in data loss if applications do not anticipate on these possible failures.

Here are some key features of "Network Drive Manager":

· Ensures all network drives that are under control of NDM get connected and activated.
· Network drives are kept alive to prevent deactivation.
· Built-in reconnect mechanism in case network drives or network resources are not (yet) available.
· Support for import existing network drives.
· Ability to run programs or to documents when a network drive has been successfully connected.
· TrueCrypt integration: automatically mount TrueCrypt volumes when a network drive has been successfully connected.
· Compact status information of the managed network drives in the system tray and comprehensive status information in the main screen.
· Support for connecting network drives using a different user name.
· Alert mechanism when the connection with a network drive is lost and when it is restored.
· Fully customizable.
· Uses few computer resources such as memory and hard disk space.
· Product lifetime free upgrade policy for registered users!


Limitations:

· 21 day trial

When do you need Network Drive Manager?

Network Drive Manager is a utility for managing network drives, which brings added value to users that access network drives in a computer network, ranging from small home networks to large corporate networks.
During Windows logon it ensures that all network drives under control of NDM get connected and activated, where after they are kept alive to prevent deactivation.
In case network resources are not (yet) available or if the connection with a network drive is lost, NDM alerts the user and actively attempts to reconnect the network drives.
Optionally it can mount TrueCrypt volumes, run programs or open documents when a network drive has been successfully connected.


Whats wrong with mapping network drives in Windows?

Windows does not properly reconnect network drives after logon that have been configured using Map Network Drive in Windows Explorer with the "Reconnect at logon" feature checked. Although theyre visible in Windows Explorer, they are usually not activated.
This causes problems when e.g. a network drive is used as a central location to store documents and/or settings. Applications that use these centrally stored files will complain or even fail to start because the network location is not accessible.
Even if the network drive would have been reconnected properly, the other problem is that Windows deactivates network drives (i.e. make it inaccessible) if they re not accessed for a while. This again results in complaining applications since theyre not able to flush their data to disk, and sometimes it even ends up in data loss for those applications that don t anticipate on these possible failures.

Hide, lock and protect your local, network, Floppy and USB drives, and disable the AutoRun feature for them using this fabulously designed software. Functionality and simplicity is put in every corner of the program; intuitively understandable user interface gives you an ability to start using the program right out of the box without learning anything. All you need to do is to click on the checkboxes located within the group boxes representing individual drives. Another great feature you can use lets you disable the AutoRun feature based on drive types. This means you can disable, for instance, only all USB drives, regardless of the drive letters that can be associated with them. The program lets you protect itself from an unauthorized access by assigning a password that can be requested on each program start.

Disk Manager project is a simple filesystem configurator that allow you to:

· Automaticly detect new partitions at startup.
· Fully manage configuration of filesystem.
· Enable/disable write support for NTFS (need ntfs-3g installed).