Remove hardware icon

Hi group,

My "Safely Remove Hardware" icon often vanishes from my notification area.
Item in Taskbar and Start Menu Properties still says it's there, but it
isn't. Only way to get it back is to reboot, it seems. Any help out there?

thanx

Hi, Chet.

What kind of hardware?

For some kinds of USB storage devices, such as flash drives, we can avoid
that "Safely Remove Hardware" icon altogether. In Disk Management
(diskmgmt.msc), right-click on the device (left-most column in Graphical
View), choose Properties | Policies, then set it to Optimize for Quick
removal, rather than for Better performance. This causes all writes to go
directly to the device, rather than into the cache, so it is always safe to
remove the device.

I don't know if this will work for a printer or other hardware,

RC
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"Chet" <> wrote in message
news:8E8ACDBB-85C8-49D4-99B8-...
> Hi group,
>
> My "Safely Remove Hardware" icon often vanishes from my notification area.
> Item in Taskbar and Start Menu Properties still says it's there, but it
> isn't. Only way to get it back is to reboot, it seems. Any help out there?
>
> thanx

Hello Chet

Double check to see if you can set the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon t
always "Show" in the Notification Area

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...-customize.htm

If not, then you can create a "Safely Remove Hardware" shortcut to us
when you like instead

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/17...e-shortcut.htm

Hope this helps
Shaw

Chet;1001958 Wrote:
> Hi group
>
> My "Safely Remove Hardware" icon often vanishes from my notificatio
> area
> Item in Taskbar and Start Menu Properties still says it's there, but i
> isn't. Only way to get it back is to reboot, it seems. Any help ou
> there
>
> than

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See the following also

http://ask-leo.com/safely_remove_har...ithout_it.html

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"Chet" <> wrote in message
news:8E8ACDBB-85C8-49D4-99B8-...
> Hi group,
>
> My "Safely Remove Hardware" icon often vanishes from my notification area. Item in
> Taskbar and Start Menu Properties still says it's there, but it isn't. Only way to
> get it back is to reboot, it seems. Any help out there?
>
> thanx