USBOblivion Erases All Traces of Connected USB Drives and CD-ROM
When we connect any USB drives or CD-ROM to a Windows computer, the USB device will be recorded deep inside Windows for the convenience of automatically making the drives available without checking and reinstalling the drivers. Both USBDeview and IntelliAdmin USB History Viewer is capable of revealing all USB devices that you previously connected on the computer. If for some reason you are looking for a way to erase information about devices that have been connected to the PC, USBDeview seems to be able to offer such feature which is by right clicking on the USB device listed in USBDeview and select “Uninstall Selected Devices”.
The “Uninstall Selected Devices” option in USBDeview works but unfortunately it doesn’t fully clean up all history traces that is left in Windows. USBOblivion would be a more suitable utility to serve the purpose of erasing all traces of USB-connected drives and CD-ROM drives from the registry in Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7 32/64-bit versions.
USBOblivion is a free and simple portable tool where it only has one button and two options. The only button that does the job is “Clean” while the two options are real cleanup and backup. When the “Do real clean” option is unchecked, USBOblivion runs a simulation of the cleanup so you can check on the entries found on your computer before really removing the history.
USBOblivion also has an option to backup the registry which is enabled by default. The backup file is automatically saved into your Documents folder with the .reg file extension. If you need to restore back the traces of USB devices, simply double click on the .reg file.
I’ve always thought that the USB history are only stored in USBSTOR location at registry. Thanks to the USBOblivion tool, today I get to know that Windows actually stores the history in other locations as well. There are 32-bit and 64-bit versions of USB Oblivion, so make sure you downloaded the correct version according to your Windows.
I strongly recommend NOT to use this application on your computer.
I tried the 64-bit version,and it literally made my 3G HSPA Modem,connected on USB port unuseable, and refused to to install it again.
(Funny thing is, the modem was connected and in use, when this program removed most of it’s entries in the Windows registry.)
Also, this program removes some fundamental Microsoft Windows base USB stuff in the registry.
Restoring the registry backup which the program made, didn’t work.
Luckily,I have Rollback RX installed on my machine, so all I needed was a snapshot restoration via reboot.
Seriously, unless you know what you’re doing, do NOT use this.
Use USBDeview, if you need to clear obsolote usb-information..
You have been warned, use at your own risk!
Only can delete all? There is no option to choose which one I can delete.
Maybe a dumb question, but I have to ask lol… If I have a USB external hard drive installed and use this program while the hard drive is connected… none of the data on the hard drive will be erased or damaged will it? Thank you for the help.
Hi Paul,
It’s 2019 and I stupidly ran USBOblivion on my Win7 laptop with an external USB drive attached because I was only thinking about the SanDisk drive.
After a reboot the card reader was usable again, but the partition table of the external hard drive appears to be g-o-n-e.
As others wrote, only use USBOblivion if you have complete backups available. Or as a last resort before reinstalling
Jim
Colorado
Raymond how much USB drive history does Windows save, does it show what the contents of the drive are?
Is there something similar for COM ports? At work I’ve a PC used from a previous employee, so everytime I install some device that emulates a COM port it starts from COM30 or so because the other ports are in use, so I’ve to change it manually.
I’d like to erase all unused COM