Top 15 Hotswap! Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

It does the same thing as you can remove device from Device Manager but it provides much friendly user interface as you remove the removable device from the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the notification area. It also ensures that all data are written and flushed to the disk before the device to be hot-swapped, so you can use SATA/eSATA drive as a removable device much alike USB/IEEE1394 drive.

1. USB Disk Ejector

USB Disk Ejector A program that allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device. It can be run as a non-visual command line program or a normal gui program. Its very useful if you have......

2. DevManView

DevManView Alternative to the standard Device Manager of Windows, which displays all devices and their properties in a flat table.......

3. USB Disabler

USB Disabler This Software Application is a small Utility that helps you disable or enable USB Flash Disk on your computer.......

4. USB Safely Remove

USB Safely Remove USB Safely Remove is a USB device manager. It saves time and extends user abilities on active work with flash-drives, portable drives, card readers and other gadgets.......

5. EjectUSB

EjectUSB EjectUSB was designed to be a simple utility to close all programs running from a specified drive or folder and then attempt ejection if a drive was specified. Extended functionality includes flushing the file cache, closing Explorer windows and removing registry entries and Recent Document shortcuts referencing the specified drive......

6. Jettison

Jettison Jettison eliminates the hassle of manually ejecting external drives before you put your MacBook to sleep.With Jettison, you just close your MacBook, unplug and go!Alternatively, you can eject drives at any time from the menu bar.......

7. NoDrives Manager

NoDrives Manager NoDrives Manager is a simple tool for hiding Windows logical drives by modifying the registry.......

8. ProEject

ProEject ProEject is an easy to use application which allows you to safely dismount a removable drive by closing running applications and open windows, as well as clearing the registry and folders of any trace that the USB drive might have left behind. By placing ProEject on the same drive you......

9. Audio switcher

Audio switcher Imagine you're chilling out to some music on your speakers, the urge hits you to go pwn some n00bs in a game of League.Obviously you're going to want to game with sound through your headset... You open up the sound menu, faff around in there changing the output to your......

10. Zentimo xStorage Manager

Zentimo xStorage Manager Zentimo offers you an innovative approach to manage your USB & eSATA drives. While it solves many external drive related problems in Windows, it also gives more control on your devices and just makes working with external drives fun & pleasure.......

11. SureLock

SureLock Software to lock down mobile devices (Google Android, Apple iOS, MS Windows 8 tablets and devices and handhelds based on MS WM 6.5, MS WM 6.1 and MS WM 5.0) into kiosk mode......

12. eudev

eudev eudev is a fork of systemd with the aim of isolating udev from any particular flavor of system initialization. This is a project started by Gentoo developers to ensure udev remains system initialization and distribution neutral.......

13. SoundSwitch

SoundSwitch SoundSwitch makes it easier to switch playback devices (sound cards).Normally, to switch a Playback device you need to right click the sound icon in the bottom right corner of your screen (system tray), choose "Playback devices" and then change the default playback device.Every time you want to switch.With SoundSwitch you......

14. Udev Discover

Udev Discover A helping tool for udev testers, coders, hackers and consumers. Main features are - Browsing the sysfs tree via udev, Reports udev device info and udev properties, Filter and search devices, Monitorize udev device events.......

15. Windows Device Manager

Windows Device Manager The Device Manager is a Control Panel applet in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It allows users to view and control the hardware attached to the computer. When a piece of hardware is not working, the offending hardware is highlighted for the user to deal with. The list of hardware can......