Whenever I "safely disconnect" any USB device (mainly a memory stick or mp3) the icon in the taskbar just disappears, without the appearance of the notification that actually tells you that you can safely remove the device. How can I recover this notification?.
View 7 Repliesmy safely remove icon has gone from my task bar, cant find it ...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have Windows XP Profesional SP2 system. I'm encountering a problem with the 'Safely Remove Hardware' feature. When I insert a USB Flash Drive or any other USB Mass Storage device, it functions properly. But, when i Safely Remove that USB device(From the Safely Remove Hardware icon on the Taskbar) and then insert it again ,i get the usual 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon at the Taskbar but the device does get displayed in 'My Computer' or any other place and i can't access the USB Mass storage Device. So i have to restart my PC and then only the USB Device becomes accessible from 'My Computer'.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI got a pc in this the USB SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE ICON keep appearing in the task bar. I want to unload it! When I boot up the pc it tells me it is not compatable with this system anyway - so WHY IS IT LOADING? I didn't choose for it to be there? THought you could hot swap anyway with XP usbs. Anyway In Win2K you could choose to not load this. Can't find in XP how to get rid of this! any help?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy computer with Win XP does not always have the safely remove hardware icon that comes up in the taskbar. I put a USB flashdrive in, and the icon came up. When I was through it was gone. I had no idea how to find it so I just unplugged the flashdrive. Is there a way I can make that Icon stay. It is not because it is a hidden icon.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have this little icon (green) in the lower right corner of my screen next to norton. Cant seem to get rid of it, something about USB Mass Storage device???? When I check device manager all seems well. Have tried rebooting, removing mass storage device etc.
View 11 Replies View RelatedHow do I get rid of this? Keeps telling me that USB Mass Storage Device can safely be removed from my system?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI desperately need to remove the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon.I can't stand having a cluttered desktop. I know that this has been discussed here several times, but I have yet to find a solution. I'm using an ancient Dell 3500 notebook with XP Pro. I've had an old 3com Ethernet PC Card for years, and I wanted to use it in XP. As I'm sure you all know, it puts that annoying icon in the system tray. In Windows 2000,they had a way to make it so that the icon was not required to be displayed, but I haven't found a similar option in XP. Is there something I'm missing here, or does anyone know of a third-party app, or anything like that? Also, I know that you can hide inactive icons,but the ">>" thing that shows the condensed tray takes up just a much space as keeping it as-is.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe "safe to remove hardware" icon is missing from the task tray. When a USB device (flash drive) is plugged in there is no way to safely unplug it. I have tried run>RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll> and sometime this will allow me to safely unplug a device, but not always. HP suggest reformatting the hd, but I prefer not to do this. Any suggestions?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am running Windows XP Professional with SP2. Windows Firewall is installed, as is, the excellent, Nod32 Antivirus.
I lost the Safely Remove Hardware icon and also the Volume Control icon from the Notification area of the System Tray. I do not recollect why or how this came about.
I realized that the SRH icon can be made to show up in the System Tray by:
Click on Start/Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices and placing a check mark in the
'Place volume icon on the task bar' check box.
This immeditely places the two icons referred to above in the System Tray.....
I could not find the key in the registry that controls the initialization bar so I could turn on again the icon that controls all the USB devices.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSometimes the icon is missing in the system tray.
I can get it back but next boot it's missing again.
On occasion it does show but not often.
Any ideas on why this happens and how to get it to shoe all the time?
I have installed via a USB socket on my computer a Belkin-branded Wireless USB adapater. This device, although removable, will not be removed regularly from the computer and so I would like the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon to not be displayed because of it, as it currently is. The option to hide the icon via the Taskbar properties is not the fix I am looking for, either.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a DELL 8100 with WIN XP Pro installed.Recently the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the sys-tray has disappeared. How can I retrieve it and, in the meantime, can I safely disconnect USB equipt. without first shutting down?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen I plug in a USB memory stick, my camera or an external hard drive, I get no tray icon (green arrow): the first two items I can 'eject' but I don't even get that option for the hard drive. However, when I loaded software and downloaded pictures from a phone for a friend, the icon and removal option appeared.
View 5 Replies View RelatedAfter using my USB memory stick this evening, I went to the taskbar to click the "safely remove hardware" icon, only to find it was not there. I restarted the computer (my catch-all trouble shooting method) and still did not get an icon when I inserted the USB drive. I also tried plugging in my iPod and got no icon. (Note: the flash drive and iPod function perfectly fine, it's just the "safely remove hardware' icon that's missing - annoying) Did I inadvertantly change some sort of settings. The computer is an HP PCm7250n running XP mediacenter edition, the flash drive in question is a SanDisk cruzer micro.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhy has it dissapeared? How can I restore it, so it comes back each time I insert a USB device?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn my taskbar I have the "safely remove hardware icon" all the time. When I double click on it and click stop it shows four devices; TEAC USB Hs-Sd Card USB Device (Drive H) TEAC USB Hs-Ms Card USB Device (Drive G) TEAC USB Hs-xD/SM Card USB Device (Drive F) TEAC USB Hs-CF Card USB Device (Drive E) Nothing is even connected to the drives, so why am I getting the icon? And how can I stop it from displaying these drives?
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhat are all these extra drives doing on my computer? I don't recognize them. I'm certain I didn't plug any extra drives into my computer. And I also want to get rid of these drives so the Safely Remove Hardware icon won't appear anymore
View 8 Replies View RelatedI installed the software for a HP DeskJet 5940 photo printer that I purchased. Afterwards, a "Safely remove hardware" icon appeared in the taskbar. None of the startup entries for the new printer are running in the background, so I don't know how to get rid of it.
1. Right-click within the notification area, and then click Properties.
2. On the Taskbar tab, click Customize.
3. Select Safely remove hardware, and in the Behavior column, click Always hide.
This icon suddenly isn't showing up, so I have to shut down or risk damaging something to get my external USB devices disconnected from the system.Is there a place in XP Pro that I can enable it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a feeling that this is simply a case of some registry settings which need adding/modifying/deleting but exactly which ones and what values I do not know. No, I haven't tried re-installing XP.
View 3 Replies View RelatedThe system seems to be very stable at this point in time. I run Norton Utilities and other maintenance sw as well as have a firewall/pest remover/anti-virus. Behavior - most things work fine on the USB ports, either the hub or direct connects. One digital camera will only work when direct connected(not thru the hub). I have a scanner that will only work on a 2003 Compaq Presario, but not on the whitebox on any port. Also, I have had two devices that won't work at all. I have noticed that the USB mass storage device icon doesn't seem to be present now when I attach a flash drive. This is recent behavior and doesn't predate every USB problem.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy cd rom has disappeared from my computer. Icon is gone as well as Device manager. I tried deleting the upper and lower filters as told in other discussions- but the right hand window pane under registry is blank. I tried to create a date to try a system restore- but its like the calender is frozen.
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe "Safely Remove Hardware" function running in my eMachine XP Home Edition includes USB flash drives in its warning list. While I recognize that mechanical storage devices such as CD/DVD drives, etc., should be addressed, is there any kind of subtle danger to any system functions if I ignore the "safely remove" process when connecting and/or disconnecting USB flash drives?
View 4 Replies View RelatedYou know, the small icon that appears in your taskbar when connecting a USB device? It no longer shows up, so now I have to go to Windows Explorer and click "Eject" directly on the USB device. How can I have this icon re-appear?It's the one that let's you select your USB device to "Safely remove device".
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have always been able to disable my internet connections by simply going to Start - Connect To - and right clicking the connection and clicking disable. Well recently it will not allow me to do this. I get this error message titled Error Disabling Connection "It is not possible to disable the connection at this time. The connection may be using one or more protocols that do not support Plug and Play, or it may have been initiated by another user or the system account." This began happening right after I hooked up a USB mp3 player to the computer, so I am thinking that this may have caused the problem. When it automatically loaded the drivers it came up with a message that said that the drivers had not passed windows xp testing but I went ahead and loaded them anyway. The mp3 player does work fine though.
View 5 Replies View RelatedThe oddest thing. About every Wed and either Sat or Sun. The DSL connection or something in Windows won't allow connection, and I can't access online. I have to restart the computer, then all is well until Wed. or Sat/Sun. I've called SBC/Global and they can't find anything. It seems to be a timing thing that resets to Wed and Sat/Sun. I've been keeping track. This started a couple of months ago. Has anyone else encounted this? What to do. Everything goes back to normal when I restart.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI can't disconnect some drives that are mapped on a WinXP Pro workstation. I wanted to remove the drive mapping names as they were badly outdated and so deleted the registry key. where the entries were found and then rebooted.Now the connections show up as "Disconnected Network Drive" but all still work. However, I can't disconnect any of them and the "Disconnected Network Drive" will not update to the name of the machine/share even when I go into the share and use it. Really, this is a test machine because I wanted to apply a reg via policyto clear out the strings on logon/logoff so that these were fixed all over the company. I don't understand why this thing is misbehaving though, the key get's recreated and has the name of one machine, but not the others.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have finished on the internet and disconnect , I may be playing a game or just working offline , suddenly what ever i am doing dissapears and my internet dial up box appears and asks if i want to reconnect , i say no and it goes for a couple of minits and then its back , does any one know how to stop this happening ,happens at least 10 every half hour ,it just keeps interrupting ,
View 10 Replies View Relatedon my computer I have had a "safely remove hardware" icon in the task tray that I cannot remove or get to operate successfully.
the problem is that whenever I've attempted to "stop" the hardware I always get a message saying, "The ****device cannot be stopped now. Try stopping the device again later. The device is described as "generic volume", with what appears to be some form of identification number.
please tell me whats this how I can remove it and the icon from the taskbar
P.S. - I've newly learned that this "device" with it's icon in the system tray is the hard drive (by comparing the associated ID # indicated in the "properties" window with the hard drive # in the device manager window). I certainly don't want to remove the hard drive, but does anyone know why an icon for this device would appear in the taskbar, or know how to remove the icon only?