Find Out Which USB Devices Have Been Used on Your PC

Find Out Which USB Devices Have Been Used on Your PC


Updated Wed, 07/28/2010 - 09:41 by r.schifreen

It always amazes me to discover just how much information Windows stores, regarding previous activity on the PC. We all know about stuff like your web browsing history, for example, and all those thousands of cookies associated with web sites. Thankfully, there are programs which can delete this information in order to help maintain your privacy.

But did you know that, buried deep within the OS, is a list of all the USB devices currently connected, as well as all the devices you've connected in the past? No, me neither. Well, not until I discovered a handy little utility from the ever-wonderful Nirosft, which extracts the information and displays it in a handy table.

India's super-cheap computer @$35

Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal

unveils the low cost computing-cum-access device
in New Delhi on Thursday. Photo: V. Sudershan

Cheap, or frugal, and India are synonymous. Take a look at the Nano car and now the tablet PC. 


It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011. 

If the government can find a manufacturer, the Linux operating system-based computer would be the latest in a string of "world's cheapest" innovations to hit the market out of India, which is home to the 100,000 rupee ($2,127) compact Nano car, the 749 rupees ($16) water purifier and the $2,000 open-heart surgery. 

The tablet can be used for functions like word processing, web browsing and video-conferencing. It has a solar power option too - important for India's energy-starved hinterlands - though that add-on costs extra. 

"This is our answer to MIT's $100 computer," human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said when he unveiled the device Thursday.