Post by FCorp on Nov 21, 2012 10:38:34 GMT
Drive-Thru: hard drive management software
Managing hard drives in the Windows operating system is probably not the most comfortable of things, as you find settings and options scattered around in various menus and applications.
While you can for instance use Windows Explorer to add a new descriptive name to a hard drive or partition, you need to use the Registry to hide drive letters or disk management for all hardware related settings.
Drive-Thru is a free program for the Windows operating system that makes available many of those settings in its interface. When you first start the program you will notice five main buttons on the left that lead to configuration pages such as Drive Security, Drive Configuration or CD/DVD Tools.
Here is a rundown of what the different configuration pages include in functionality:
- Drive Security lets you hide and lock drive letters, disallow auto run for specific drive letters or drive types. This includes disallowing autorun for hard drives, CD or DVD drives, RAM disk or USB Flash drives.
- Drive Substitution is a visual interface for the operating system’s subst command. This basically lets you map a folder to a drive letter to make it available for all kinds of activities under that virtual drive.
CD/DVD Tools can be used to map ISO images to drive letters. - Drive Configuration offers lots of features. From changing drive labels, enabling or disabling write protection, changing the path for cleanup, defrag and backups, loading the disk management window of the operating system, and features such as opening or closing the disc tray.
- Other links to drive monitoring options, lets you clean the drive autorun or autoplay history, and change the drive explorer menu on the desktop.
- The program can be useful if you want to make modifications to the hard drives and related features without having to go through a series of menus.
You can download the latest version of Drive-Thru over at the developer website.