I use this software and find it useful in Vista. Helps greatly with managing external drives.
Fast & Reliable Safe Device Removal - Lets you stop a device, display locking processes, or reconnect a stopped device.
Portable App Quick Launcher - Lets you launch any application located on your external drive with one click.
Powerful Autorun - Can automatically mount\dismount your TrueCrypt drive, launch a file manager, check flash drives for viruses and run anything else on device connection\disconnection.
Drive Letter Management - The program hides drive letters of unused card reader slots, can assign drive letters to a specific device, and much more…
Honest Drive Speed Test - Perform read/write speed tests for any attached drive.
TrueCrypt management - Manage your external TrueCrypt volumes the same way as external drives.
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I picked this up the other day from giveawayoftheday and it's actually pretty good.. I like how it removes all the drives that are on card readers, and will only show up when theres a card inserted into the reader.