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DriveCleanup is a lightweight command application that helps to remove orphaned entries of various drives from the device tree of your system. It will also cleanup registry keys belonging to such drives. DriveCleanup does not require installation, but requires administrative privileges in order to work properly. There are two major methods to make use of the program; the first one involves a simple double-click on the application executable, following which a complete cleanup is carried out. The second one involves more advanced configurations, which can be revealed by running the application with the ‘-help’ argument. The set of options that becomes available is pretty much self-explanatory. There is also an option to test the functionality, which will result in fetching a report of the items that have been detected as orphaned without actually performing a removal operation.