USB flash drive locked by IDU

[Guest]

Hi everybody

Some time ago I have posted q question about USB flash drive being locked by
something.
Many thanks to all people posted their comments (Uwe, where are you?)

Now I figured out that what is holding some handles on the drive is
IDUServ.exe - i.e. Intel Desktop Utility service. Its installed with Inel
motherboard.

I have no kick against this utility, but I don't know why it is holding the
handles and how to force it to release whatever it is holding. I tried
stopping the service, but then I noticed some suspicious error messages when
shutting down the computer.

Does anybody know proper and legitimate method to release flash drive
resources locked by IDU? Or may be this IDU is not such important and I can
disable it?

Thank you

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Some time ago I have posted q question about USB flash drive being locked by
something.
Many thanks to all people posted their comments (Uwe, where are you?)

Now I figured out that what is holding some handles on the drive is
IDUServ.exe - i.e. Intel Desktop Utility service. Its installed with Inel
motherboard.

I would ty to uninstall the 'Intel Desktop Utility' using
the control panel Add\Remove programs applet. If it holds
open handles to your USB drive for no reason it must be
scrap.

Funny: file.net reates it 5 percent dangerous for english
people but 49 percent dangerous for germans

http://www.file.net/process/iduserv.exe.html
http://www.file.net/prozess/iduserv.exe.html

Yes, we germans are intolerant ;-)


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Guest]

Hi Uwe,

sure, I can uninstall IDU but then I'll lose some stuff I got used to: e.g.
Intel's CPU temperature monitor, which I am not ready to sacrifice. Probably,
what I'll do is just exclude IDU from autostart - this way I can still check
CPU temp starting it from shortcut. What do you think?

Thanks
Alex

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Hi Uwe,

sure, I can uninstall IDU but then I'll lose some stuff I got used to: e.g.
Intel's CPU temperature monitor, which I am not ready to sacrifice. Probably,
what I'll do is just exclude IDU from autostart - this way I can still check
CPU temp starting it from shortcut. What do you think?

Yes, sounds good. Maybe you find an alternative to
get the CPU temperature in the systray.
http://www.dirfile.com/freeware/temperature.htm


Greetings from Germany

Uwe