My icon for “safely remove hardware” suddenly disappeared from the system tray on my notebook. Now, whenever you need to remove hardware, and the icon isn’t present on the taskbar notification area, you can simply double click on this new shortcut and get the job done. In the resulting dialog box enter that “RunDL元2” command listed above. Right click on your desktop, click on New, and then click on Shortcut. If it happens often enough, you can create a desktop shortcut for that geeky looking command. Of course a side effect I noticed when I did this was that the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon reappeared. Once Windows is done with it, you can then remove the device. That will bring up the “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog: Safely Remove Hardware dialogįrom this dialog you can click on the device you want to remove, and press Stop. When this happens, what I’ve found is that you can click on Start, Run…, and type in: Even though there are devices installed that require it – it’s nowhere to be found. The problem is that occasionally, for reasons unknown, the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon can disappear. In practice that doesn’t happen often, but it’s possible. In the case of disks, for example, Windows flushes all disk buffers, avoiding things like potential corruption.Īnd that’s the fear – if you remove something like a USB thumb drive without first telling Windows, it’s possible to corrupt the contents of the drive. The purpose of “Safely Remove Hardware” is simple: it’s how you tell Windows that you’re about to remove a device so that Windows can finish whatever it needs to do with it. If you hover your mouse over it you’ll see it’s tool-tip: “Safely Remove Hardware”. Normally, when you have a removable USB device installed, Windows displays a small icon in the notification area (the right most collection of icons) of your task bar: Safely Remove Hardware icon So, I stumbled onto a fairly reasonable workaround. I’ve never actually had a problem just unplugging the device anyway, but it still makes me feel uncomfortable doing so.
The remove hardware icon in the taskbar’s notification area disappears occasionally for reasons unknown.
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