Vista - Safely remove hardware

I've been using the Safely Remove Hardware to remove my thumb drives and
compact flash drives but every time I do it, the icon disappears from the
notification area and the only way I can get it back is to re-boot. Is
anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks.

You can make A Shortcut For "safely remove Hardware" Using

RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll



"Larry E" wrote:

> I've been using the Safely Remove Hardware to remove my thumb drives and
> compact flash drives but every time I do it, the icon disappears from the
> notification area and the only way I can get it back is to re-boot. Is
> anyone else experiencing this?
>
> Thanks.

What do you want it there all the time for?
It pops up there when you need it!

"Larry E" wrote:

> I've been using the Safely Remove Hardware to remove my thumb drives and
> compact flash drives but every time I do it, the icon disappears from the
> notification area and the only way I can get it back is to re-boot. Is
> anyone else experiencing this?
>
> Thanks.

Well, Mick it doesn't "pop up there" when I need it. As I said, the only way
to get it back is to re-boot. Inserting another thumb drive or flash drive
does not bring it back.

"Mick Murphy" wrote:

You are saying that there are multiple items on it, but when you click to
remove one, the icon disappears?

"Larry E" <LarryE@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, John and thanks for asking.

When I open it to stop the particular drive, I can see all the other drives
as well, so I find the one want to stop, click on it, and as soon as I get
the message that the device can now be safely removed, the icon in the
information area disappears and even if I plug in another device, the icon
doesn't come back. Only way to get it back is to re-boot.

I've been reading that it's not really necessary to use that "Safely Remove
Hardware" and that I can just make sure there is nothing being written to the
drive and just unplug it. If that is the case, then I'm not going to worry
about it anymore. It's just that when Vista first came out, they more or
less tried to impress on us that it was "mandatory" to use that function,
otherwise damage could be done. But now I see that is not necessarily true
anymore.

Thanks for your help.

"John Barnes" wrote:

That is not necessarily so. You could have data in a buffer and not written
when you remove it. Safely remove hardware forces any unwritten buffers to
be written.

"Larry E" <LarryE@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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