Thursday, July 3, 2008

I plugged in my hardware but I don't see the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system tray?

If you add hot swappable hardware like a USB Flash Drive and do not get the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the system tray, you can manually start the Removal Wizard.
Click on Start in the lower left hand corner
Select Run
In the Dialog box type or paste...

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

Press OK.
That should bring up the "Safely Remove Hardware" Wizard.
The "Safely Remove Hardware" icon should also reappear in the system tray.

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