Error Regarding: Safely Remove Hardware

[Sunny]

When I get ready to remove a thumb drive from a USB port and double-click on
the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the system tray and then click on
"Stop" and then "OK", I get a "System Beep" sound from my speakers and may
or may not get an error message which reads: 'An exception occurred while
trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDll hotplug.dll".'

This same error now happens on all of my Windows XP Home Edition computers,
but never happened before the this month's critical updates were installed.
I attempted to install an updated driver for the thumb drive, but Windows
could not locate one on-line. Does anyone know what to do about this??

 

[gerryf]

Did you try rolling back your system to a date prior to the last updates
using system restore?

 

[Sunny]

No, I would not want to expose my computer(s) to the risk of going online
without the latest critical updates.

 

[gerryf]

Then disconnect and roll back, then see if the issue repeats.

If it does not repeat we know it is an update and you can re-apply the
updates