Automate Cleaning of your USB Drives with Free USBDriveFresher

Posted by dkszone on August 21, 2009

Every time you plug-in your USB drive, many temporary and system files are created on the drive by the PC you are plugging into. You might have already seen files and folders such as thumbs.db, .Trashes, .ds_store, etc being left over on your USB drive by the host computer. These files are not cleaned up automatically and after a while start taking up the space on your pen drive.

If you frequently connect your pen drive to many PCs, for example in your office, then you will have to clean up all these trash files every now and then in order to get back the lost space on your flash drive . Cleaning these files manually every time you use the drive is a pain. You can automate this cleaning process with the help of USBDriveFresher. This Free utility for Windows can be set to clean up any USB flash drive that is plugged-in to your PC automatically.

With USBDriveFresher, you can either choose to use preset rules or specify your own custom clean-up rules. It can run silently in the background upon Windows Startup and clean any USB drive plugged into your PC. USBDriveFresher can also be made to minimize to the system tray. Some of the preset rules include the .fseventsd, .Spotlight-V100 and all those annoying files beginning with an underscore (_). Wildcard matching can be used to add your own list of files/folders to the Cleanup rules.