Tip: Quick "Safely Remove Hardware"

[SKR]Phoenix

[SKR]Phoenix

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Well........this might not be news to some, but I just accidently found this out on Vista.

To open "Safely Remove Hardware" quickly (if you have icon hidden etc) then simply double click the red area as shown in this pic:

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and, if you don't have hidden icons it extends to every "non-system" icon in the tray, i.e.:

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In other words, double click UNDER any system tray icon that isn't system related (sound, network, power, clock).

probs old news to some, lol.
 
Ok, you made me make a video and everything! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCABzyqe7Kk

However, I have since noticed that is only works when my SD card, phone or ipod are plugged in. In other words, only works when a device that "should" be safely removed is connected.

When nothing is connected/inserted, the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon disappears from the system tray and it simply doesn't work.

So, give it a try with a device/card inserted. Seems to be the case here.

Oh and report back either way...would be good to know.
 
You only really need to safely remove for external harddisk drives and nothing else IIRC but even then modern external disks have a built in feature so you can unplug then without going through safely remove and they are perfectly fine. My Iomega 320GB USB2 disk is like this.

A much quicker solution if your drive does not support this is to go to my computer, right click the disk and simple select "safely remove"

You don't need to safely remove for USB card readers and such like.
 
But why bother with the box. Simply click once on the safely remove button, you the get a menu of all items connected and then simply remove.

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Thats a total of 2 clicks.
 
a lot of needless crap running there..

2x sound icons (disable the realtek one in the options)
2x wireless ones (only ever install the driver, and not the wireless software with a dongle, windows xp upwards can do it fine on it's own)
trackpad icon, disable it
the one with a tick in it, just looks lame whatever the program is :D
 
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