Track usage of USB drives in your Computer by USBDeView
It is quite natural that fortunately or unfortunately you have to use a shared computer at your office or even outside your workplace. It is also the fact that you have to keep some files in that computer for the sake of your work. But here lies the danger! What if somebody else copies or modifies some of your files from that shared computer by his USB drive?
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Hence you will want to keep an eye on when an USB drive is being used on your computer to be sure of any malpractices that may happen underneath.
It will be highly beneficial if you can know the date and time when a particular USB drive was used on your machine and moreover, if the name as well as the serial number of that USB drive is in your knowledge. Yes!! this is possible with a freeware utility named USBDeView.
About USBDeView :
USBDeView is a freeware utility readily available in web and serves general mass to keep track of USB drives used in computers. It is essentially a portable yet very simple application that shows all the USB drives connected to your computer at present as well as in the past. Adding to these, this simple Windows application also informs you about the device name, product id, serial number, vendor id, the time and the date and many more detailed information for your benefit.
How to Use It
1. Download the application USBDeView from this given link.
It is a zipped file and you must have a unzipping software essentially Winrar or Winzip to open it. After downloading the application the zipped file should look like the one below :
2. Once you double click on that file, the Winrar window should open up where you can find an exe file.
3. Now just double click on the exe file and USBDeView window opens up. Here you can see all the details regarding the usage of USB drives in your computer.
Thats all! You have each and every detail in front of you and by following the steps mentioned above you must have been enriched with the idea how much simple the application is.
Note: You can also extract the archive that you have downloaded by WinRAR and use the extracted exe file whenever you need to know the USB drive information.
To conclude off, we must admit that this application is really of great help in keeping track of some malpractices regarding copying of files or modification of the same from your shared computer by using a USB drive. But it doesnot end here. This freeware utility is also capable of running a program when a USB drive is inserted in your computer. Moreover this tool prevents autorun of programs from USB drives and also gives you the facility of using USBDeView on your remote computer so long you are logged into that computer as an administrator.
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