Safe Removal Icon

[Guest]

I use XP Professional SP2 and the classical Windows Menus etc.
The Taskbar-Option: 'dont display inactive symbols' is disabled.

Upon connecting a plug and play device - i.e. MP3 Player, external Disk, USB
Stick - the 'Remove safely' Icon sometimes appears and sometimes not. This
behaviour is not device dependent, since the same device sometimes provokes
the Icon and sometimes doesnt.

Fiddling the Taskbar Options does not resolve the problem. The Problem
occurred on my old computer as well as on a completely new installation.

How can I force the Icon: 'Remove Safely' ??

Regards

 

[OShah]

I use XP Professional SP2 and the classical Windows Menus etc.
The Taskbar-Option: 'dont display inactive symbols' is disabled.

Upon connecting a plug and play device - i.e. MP3 Player, external Disk,
USB Stick - the 'Remove safely' Icon sometimes appears and sometimes
not. This behaviour is not device dependent, since the same device
sometimes provokes the Icon and sometimes doesnt.

Fiddling the Taskbar Options does not resolve the problem. The Problem
occurred on my old computer as well as on a completely new installation.

How can I force the Icon: 'Remove Safely' ??

Regards

This is a stab in the dark, but anyway...

As well as being device dependent, "safely remove hardware" is also dependent
on which USB port you plugged it in. That is:

If you plugged the MP3 player in port 1, then proceeded to connect to port 2,
Windows will treat these two ports as separate devices (Port 1 disconnected,
Port 2 connected).

If this is true, you'll need to go back to device manager, double click your
device, go to policies and recheck the "write caching" box.

Of course, there's also the Explorer restart issue you lose some icons...

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oshah [shexec32]
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Error Reporting -> Choose Programs
-> Do not report errors for these programs:

Acrobat.exe
waol.exe

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