Safely Remove Hardware Option has Gone

Safely Remove Hardware Option has Gone

Normally, when your machine has a removable USB device installed, Windows automatically displays a little icon in the notification area or what you called the system tray (the right most collections of icons) of your task bar.

If you point your mouse over to it you will see its tool-tip name as Safely Remove Hardware.

The purpose of this option is that users can tell to the Windows OS that he/she is going to remove a USB device and so the OS can finish whatever communication/ transactions with the device. For example Windows can flush the disk buffer and avoid horrible things like corruption.

If you remove a USB device without telling Windows it can lead into a corruption in the contents of the device. This is not always happening, but there is a probability to happen it.

If you take out the device without using the Safely Remove Hardware option, I will warn you that you are at a risk of damaging your files inside it.

So now move into your problem.

Open the Run dialog and type the below thing and click OK.

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

I hope you are familiar with the dialog box which will going to be appearing now. From here you can remove the devices you want to take away. You only have to click on a device you want to remove and Stop it.

After that when it's done with it, you can take out the device from the machine.

If you think that the above thing is hard to remind, then you can create a shortcut for this dialog box. So if your icon in the system tray is more often disappears, creating a shortcut will be very much useful.

So right click on your desktop.

Select New and then go to Shortcut.

In the dialog box appears, type the above code

So this will create a shortcut for the Safely Remove Hardware dialog box.

Click next.

In here you can type a name for the shortcut.

So here after you can use this shortcut whenever the icon not presented in the system tray (task bar notification). You need only to double click on this shortcut and get your job done.