How to clear out usb history on Bench tech machine Help!

ComputerGeek said:

It should work on Win 8 as well (but let us know). I find the drivecleanup tool quite handy and easy to use. A "must have" in a geek's tool kit :)

Yes indeed. I do the drive cleanup periodically and the drive cleanup has resolved USB related problems for many.

USB Thumb Drives not recognised (not drive letter)

ComputerGeek said:

How to Cleanup and Remove old USB Mass Storage Drivers

Thanks for this tool, works great for me.
After running it, in Outlook 2010 a Hotmail IMAP account does a send/receive much faster.
That account has always been slowest for me, but this seems to have helped. :)

I had one key that couldn't be removed on the first run.
Rebooted and ran it again - key removed.

Code:

Removed 5 USB devices
Removed 14 USB hubs
Removed 3 Disk devices
Removed 1 CDROM devices
Removed 0 Floppy devices
Removed 50 Storage volumes
Removed 2 WPD devices
Removed 87 Keys from registry
Regkey to delete HKLM\System\MountedDevices\\??\Volume{140dac9e-abc4-11de-9c80-806e6f6e6963}

1 Keys not removed from registry

DavidW7ncus said:

ComputerGeek said:

How to Cleanup and Remove old USB Mass Storage Drivers

Thanks for this tool, works great for me.
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Wow. It removed 57 storage volumes and 87 registry keys! Glad to hear that it helped! :)

The OS was installed when Win 7 was released, about 4.5 years ago. :)