When I want to disconnect my Sont NWZ-S639F mp3 player from my PC, there
is no SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE icon. Do I need to use the icon to prevent
damage, or can I just pull it out? How do I make the icon appear if I
need to? the walkman cost a lot of money and I don't want to risk
damaging it.
Thanks guys.
The Safely Remove Hardware icon usually appears when removable hardware is
attached. However, your mp3 player is probably Optimized for Quick Removal:
"This setting disables write caching on the disk and in Windows, so you can
disconnect this device without using the Safe Removal icon." For peace of
mind, you can put a shortcut to the SRH (Safely Remove Hardware) dialog on
your desktop or Start Menu, and the usual side effect of accessing that
dialog is for the icon to appear in the SysTray Notification Area, (if you
have any devices connected.)
Right click your desktop, click New, click Shortcut.
Type or paste this next line into the location box:
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
[There is a space after "exe" and before "hot".]
click Next, and type or paste this into the name box:
Safely Remove Hardware
Click Finish. If you like, you can right click the new shortcut, click
Change Icon, and in the Look for Icons box, type or paste:
%SystemRoot%\system32\hotplug.dll
and click OK, and select the SRH icon for your shortcut, click OK, OK.
To put that shortcut on your Start Menu, left click and drag the shortcut,
hold it over the Start button for a second until the menu appears, point to
(All) Programs, then Accessories, then position it where you want it by
looking at the horizontal lines that appear between items, and then drop it
(release the mouse button) to MOVE it there, or hold your CTRL key as you
release your mouse button to COPY it. A +plus symbol will appear on the
pointer when you copy. (P.S. to cancel a drag in progress, press ESC key.
[Note: Your StartMenu>Properties>Customize needs to have Dragging and
dropping "enabled" for adding shortcuts to the Start Menu.]
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If your Safely Remove Hardware icon has changed to a generic folder icon,
you need to flush the icon cache and rebuild it:
[Although a Vista article, this method flushes XP icons too:]
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/945011
1. Click Start, click Run, type "regedit" without quotes and click OK.
2. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation,
type the password, or click Allow. Locate and then click the
following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER
\Software
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Explorer
\TrayNotify
[*To backup this registry key, right click TrayNotify, click Export, type a
filename like "OldTrayNotify.reg" and save it to desktop, or where ever you
can remember you put it.*]
3. In the Details pane, click the IconStreams registry entry.
4. On the Edit menu, click Delete, and then click Yes.
5. In the Details pane, click the PastIconsStream registry entry.
6. On the Edit menu, click Delete, and then click Yes.
7. Exit Registry Editor.
8. Restart the Explorer.exe process:
a. Press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
(Or right-click clock and click Task Manager.)
b. On the Processes tab in Task Manager, click the explorer.exe process,
and then click End Process two times.
c. On the File menu, click New Tasks (Run), type:
explorer
and then click OK.
d. Exit Task Manager.
[Remember to re-start your computer twice to be sure changes stick. After
the icons have been rebuilt, you may delete "OldTrayNotify.reg", which you
didn't need anyway... it is just a good idea to get into the habit of
backing up any registry branches you change, in case of an OOPS! :]
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To make a clickable registry (*.reg) file to do the above Registry changes,
right click desktop, click New, click Text Document, press Enter twice to
open, and type or paste these five lines:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\TrayNotify]
"PastIconsStream"=-
"IconStreams"=-
[The 2nd line, after version, is a blank line.]
[The third line, between square brackets, is one line without spaces.]
[The hyphen "-" after equals "=" means Delete data for that value.]
Next, FileSave and exit, and rename the file "TrayNotifyReset.reg". Right
click, and click Merge, and click Yes to delete those two sub keys' data.
Stop and restart Explorer according to previous instructions, and restart
your computer to complete the process of rebuilding tray icons that are
still needed.
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(Triple-Click here to: Have a nice day!
--Richard
