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USB packet sniffer software to look at the data coming from an Xbox controller
Wireshark
AFAIK, the defacto standard tool to sniff USB traffic is Wireshark, which comes with USB PCAP to sniff USB traffic.
From their website:
It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard ...
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Tool to create bootable FreeBSD USB flash drives
You might want to give Rufus a try.
It is reported to support FreeBSD and it has (like UnetBootIn) an option which not only lists USB sticks but external hard disks too:
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Tool to create bootable FreeBSD USB flash drives
Try UNetbootin.
UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu
and other Linux distributions without burning a CD.
It runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. It's licensed ...
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lsusb for Windows
I just recalled that I used the graphical tool NirSoft USBDeview. Looking at the vendor's website, I find it can also be run as a command line tool.
Command line options:
/stext <Filename> ...
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Portable encryption for USB flash drives
In the free arena, Veracrypt is still an excellent choice and is being maintained with both patches and improvements, and is cross-platform.
In the paid area, software like Checkpoint can do (for ...
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Share USB drive between computers
I may suggest you a FlexiHub solution - http://www.flexihub.com/usb-over-ip-software.html:
use it for free with short sessions or buy and use without limitations
compatible with all windows
easy to ...
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What software could deny access to a USB Drive, with an encryption password?
The default windows Bitlocker program which is available in windows vista and up is just fine see
a detailed tutorial here
http://www.howtogeek.com/192894/how-to-set-up-bitlocker-encryption-on-...
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Software to access Windows hardrive from Android phone via USB
All you need is a DLNA server on your Windows computer. (In Linux, you can install uShare.)
Then you can use any DLNA application in Android to browse the DLNA share exposed on your Windows computer....
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Tool to create bootable FreeBSD USB flash drives
I was in the same situation some time ago and found only 2 solutions, one for Windows one for Linux (Etcher supports 3 major platforms though, I tried only on Linux):
Rufus and Etcher
Etcher
Flash OS ...
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multiple bootable iso on usb flash drive
If you don't mind installing a Linux system on your flashdrive you can do this rather easily using the grml-rescueboot package. I used Lubuntu for it's small size and flexiblitly, installed the grml ...
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Login to Windows via a USB key
My USBLogon is another software that fits into your requirements scheme:
Free, no ads
Simple user interface
Locks/Shuts down computer/logs off user upon removal of the USB drive
Set-up of an ...
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Portable, no-admin, no-install, Win/Linux USB encryption/decryption on the go
The way you want the program to work is deeply flawed concerning protection of the files, as they would stay decrypted on the USB drive until the encryption program is run again.
Instead, the way to ...
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lsusb for Windows
Uwe Sieber's commandline tool RestartUsbPort can list present USB devices:
C:\>RestartUsbPort -L
RestartUsbPort V1.0.3 (Win32) - Restarts a USB Port
Freeware by Uwe Sieber - www.uwe-sieber.de
List ...
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lsusb for Windows
There are several tools available for this purpose. However, and unfortunately there is not one single tool like lsusb which does it all. Here are your options:
DevCon.exe (CLI) which is available in ...
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multiple bootable iso on usb flash drive
"MultiBootUSB is a cross platform software written in python which allows you to install multiple live linux on a USB disk non destructively and option to uninstall distros."
Works well.
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Acquiring images from a live video from a TV to PC adapter
The method suggested by this SO post worked for me:
I used a trial version of DVdrive software to fool my OS into believing that the connected TV to PC adapter is a webcam and then I was able to ...
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software to re-use USB Volume control?
Devices like the Griffin Powermate put out a specific code, emulating one of 2 possible keyboard keys: Multimedia Volume Up, Multimedia Volume Down.
While you can write code to catch that (like ...
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Video/image capture software for USB camera on Windows 7
VLC can do all of that, and more
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-record-your-webcam-with-vlc/
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Drive cloning tool that works with different sized drives
Too bad, I didn't see the question earlier. Steve Barnes's answer is completely wrong.
You can clone your drives, using any partition editor. Basiclly, the target drive has to be no less size, then ...
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Drive cloning tool that works with different sized drives
Basically, you can't because two clones must be identical, that is what the word means, which results in the same apparent size.
The quickest and easiest answer is to procure a batch of 20+ identical ...
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Linux live CD/DVD that includes UnionFS (but not Knoppix)
Both Mint and Ubuntu can do persistence. Or even be installed directly to USB w/ boot loader written to USB.
I prefer Mint - Ubuntu made me upset with some changes a few versions ago... Here's how ...
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Platform to manage and update multiple USB drives
Personally I would give the following a try:
Install python and the library xlrd once python is installed you can do this with pip install xlrd.
On each USB stick have a file that uniquely identifies ...
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multiple bootable iso on usb flash drive
You could use YUMI, it creates a good menu and places entrys for each Iso loaded!
You can get it here for windows:
YUMI multiboot pendrive
It really works great with Linux distros and various rescue ...
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multiple bootable iso on usb flash drive
Though this is not a software recommendation, but - IODD hosts a lot of ISO images, bootable or not. Some models support also multiple "virtual disks".
(Older USB2.0 models a.k.a. "Zalman Virtual CD ...
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Debian based portable Linux distro
DSL small Linux distro was developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop applications can fit inside a 50MB live CD. With the time this project expanded into a large community with ...
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USB antivirus scanner
Norton AV has a bootable USB stick for system scanning.
Also you can not trust a USB stick/portable app antivirus to scan a running system because an active rootkit will just hide all of its ...
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USB antivirus scanner
My favorite is SUPERAntiSpyware. It works fine with other anti-virus software including Avast. It's free to use (for personal use) and is being updated every day. It includes a portable version that ...
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Bootable linux like distro to sanitize USB flash drives and hard drives
A whatever unix distro support dd command.
Using the command in a fashion like:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/usb_device_name bs=1M
where usb_device_name changes among the various distros, you have to ...
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Bootable linux like distro to sanitize USB flash drives and hard drives
Have a look at parted magic.
It has a basic virus scanner and software to format drives among other things and can be burn to disk or USB.
You can get the last free version from majorgeek
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Portable encryption software for USB stick
Not very convenient, but 7Zip can encrypt files while it compresses them into archives.
Meets your requirements:
It works on Linux (portable wasn't an issue here - I don't know if it's portable on ...
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