Suppress popup "USB Mass Storage Device" can now be safely removed from the system ?

[Peter Meister]

When I dismount an USB device (external hard disc or USB memory stick) from the the systray
a dialog window pops up informing me:

"USB Mass Storage Device" can now be safely removed from the system

Can I somehow suppress this dialog window?

I just want WinXP silently to remove the drive letter of the USB storage device from WinExplorer.
Thats all. Only in case of unsuccessful dismount a dialog should appear.

How do I setup this ?

Peter

 

[Uwe Sieber]

When I dismount an USB device (external hard disc or USB memory stick) from the the systray
a dialog window pops up informing me:

"USB Mass Storage Device" can now be safely removed from the system

Can I somehow suppress this dialog window?

I just want WinXP silently to remove the drive letter of the USB storage device from WinExplorer.
Thats all. Only in case of unsuccessful dismount a dialog should appear.

How do I setup this ?

Never seen a setting to achieve this.

Maybe my commandline tool RemoveDrive helps.
On success its console window closes and parameter -L
makes it loops until success.
removedrive X: -L

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/removedrive.zip


Uwe

 

[Guest]

I did it. I don't get any USB popups anymore. But I can't remember
how! I think Ramesh gave me the answer. Long time ago.
Good luck!

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In the last exciting episode on Mon, 29 May 2006 11:46:13 +0200, Uwe

 

[David Vair]

This will disable all the balloon popups:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307729

 

[Richard Urban]

If you have the USB drive set for "performance" settings in Device Manager,
you will get this popup. This is because write caching is turned on at this
time. Write caching holds disk writes in RAM until the O/S is idle. Then it
belatedly writes the information to the drive. Without the popup, and
subsequent "safe" shutdown of the drive, you may well lose information that
has yet to be written to the drive.

If you remove the performance settings from the drive, any disk writes are
performed "immediately" The drive can be removed as you please - and you
will not get any popup. The resulting action will be an overall slow down of
the drives performance. You have to decide which you want, speed or
convenience.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Unk]

When I dismount an USB device (external hard disc or USB memory stick) from the the systray
a dialog window pops up informing me:

"USB Mass Storage Device" can now be safely removed from the system

Can I somehow suppress this dialog window?

I just want WinXP silently to remove the drive letter of the USB storage device from WinExplorer.
Thats all. Only in case of unsuccessful dismount a dialog should appear.

How do I setup this ?

Peter

Right-click "My Computer", Properties, Hardware Tab, Device Manager.
Expand "Disk Drives", Double-click the flash drive, "Policies Tab".
Check "Optimize for quick removal" and "OK" your way out.
Now you can remove the flash drive without using the Safe Removal Icon.

 

[Uwe Sieber]

If you have the USB drive set for "performance" settings in Device Manager,
you will get this popup.

On all XPs I've ever seen this bubble popup does not
depend on these policies. It always appears when you
prepare an USB drive for save removal.

This is because write caching is turned on at this
time.

True for USB drive that appear as 'Local drive'. On
USB drives that appear as 'Removable drive' these
policies have no tracable effect.

If you remove the performance settings from the drive, any disk writes are
performed "immediately" The drive can be removed as you please

If you have open files on the drive its never a good
idea to remove it, with or without a write cache.
All you need to screw up the drive is an autosave feature
that writes in the moment when you tear out the drive.

Always prepare a drive for save removal is the right choice.
At least 'Eject' the drive (if removable) by means of its
Windows Explorer context menu.


Uwe