I FORCE an icon to emerge on a hardware of my choice?

[KnightOfTheKingOfPop]

On some hardware a special " remove safely icon" emerges on the system tray
and you click on that to remove the hardware.
I have a modem that I want to be able to connect and disconnect via that
icon.

Can I FORCE an icon to emerge on a hardware of my choice?

I know there is a long way to do it from the device manager.... but I am
wondering about having the icon there.

Thanks...



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[Steve Filler]

I don't know of any way to FORCE that function. It only appears for devices
that NEED to be stopped before being disconnected - such as an external
(generally USB) cable modem, network interface, removable drive, etc.

 

[Knight]

how does windows know wich hardware needs it or not?

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[Steve Filler]

I'm not really sure - I suppose it is in the driver (inf) files for the
device. It could also be related to the class of the device, combined with
it's type of connection.

 

[Pavel A.]

On some hardware a special " remove safely icon" emerges on the system tray
and you click on that to remove the hardware.
I have a modem that I want to be able to connect and disconnect via that
icon.

Can I FORCE an icon to emerge on a hardware of my choice?

I know there is a long way to do it from the device manager.... but I am
wondering about having the icon there.

Please post this in developer ng's
( microsoft.public.development.device.drivers )

--PA

 

[Knight]

This belongs here not in the developers newsgroup

I hate Net Cops

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me their feedback with another post (in the same thread of course), so I
will know if my advice helped them or not.

Kenny S www.talentgrid.com
www.computerboom.net