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Westwood 1.02, published by the sz development, is a lightweight Windows utility designed to bridge the gap between Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 and physical hardware by automatically attaching USB devices to the WSL 2 kernel as soon as they are plugged in. Once installed, the program runs discreetly in the background, monitors the system’s USB bus, and executes the necessary mount commands so that distributions running under WSL 2 immediately recognize flash drives, micro-controllers, security tokens, 3-D printers, or any other USB peripheral without manual intervention. The software is particularly useful for developers who compile embedded firmware inside Ubuntu on WSL, data engineers who need to read serial output from an Arduino, or security testers who rely on hardware-based encryption keys, because it eliminates the repetitive steps of opening PowerShell, listing USB endpoints, and issuing wsl --attach each time a device is reconnected. Westwood ships in two published versions—1.01 and the current 1.02—both distributed as signed 64-bit executables that start with Windows and consume negligible RAM; the later release refines device-detection logic and adds a small tray icon for on-demand status checks. As a narrowly focused system tool, the program sits in the “Other System Utilities” category, requires no special WSL configuration beyond the standard usbipd support, and coexists safely with existing Hyper-V, VirtualBox, or VMware drivers. Westwood is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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