Unplug or Eject Hardware Icon missing

[George W. Barrowcliff]

The "Unplug or Eject Hardware" Icon in the tool bar at the bottom of the
screen disappeared a few days ago. How can I add it back?

TIA

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear George, that problem happens very often.

Please, create a shortcut in your desktop of this program:

"%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
hotplug.dll"

Note that there is one blank space before "shell32.dll" and another
before "hotplug.dll". No other blank spaces should be there, and
please try it with the quotes and without the quotes.

It works very well in my WinXP machine, I understand that it should
work in a Win2k machine too.

The "Unplug or Eject Hardware" Icon in the tool bar at the bottom of the
screen disappeared a few days ago. How can I add it back?

TIA

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Roger Fink]

The "Unplug or Eject Hardware" Icon in the tool bar at the bottom of
the screen disappeared a few days ago. How can I add it back?

TIA

Bottom Up method: Insert a USB flash drive and then unplug the device
through the control panel (System/Hardware/Hardware Wizard/Uninstall-Unplug
a Device/Unplug-Eject a Device/USB Mass Storage Device). The final box
offers you a checkbox to show the unplug icon in the system tray.
Apparently, the underlying vision behind this was "How can we make this as
hairy/nerve-wracking as possible?" If it doesn't work, there may be a Top
Down method as well for System Administrators.

 

[Roger Fink]

Bottom Up method: Insert a USB flash drive and then unplug the device
through the control panel (System/Hardware/Hardware
Wizard/Uninstall-Unplug a Device/Unplug-Eject a Device/USB Mass
Storage Device). The final box offers you a checkbox to show the
unplug icon in the system tray. Apparently, the underlying vision
behind this was "How can we make this as hairy/nerve-wracking as
possible?" If it doesn't work, there may be a Top Down method as well
for System Administrators.

If you find the box already checked, try unchecking it, complete the flash
drive removal, reinsert the flash drive, and remove it again through the
control panel, this time rechecking the icon box. I haven't tried it, but
that methodology has solved a few Mozilla problems for me in the past.