Remove hardware icon

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Chet

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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