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Sometimes, it happens to me. When i tried to unplug my USB device from laptop, i couldn’t find safely remove hardware icon in Windows systray. Some devices could be damaged if you try to unplug without using safely remove in Windows, also some people feel uncomfortable to do so.
If you have any removable USB device plugged into your computer, Windows always displays safely remove hardware icon in systray. It’s very useful if need to remove a device so that Windows can finish all tasks involved with it, avoiding bad things that can damaging your device.
If you face this problem, for unknown reason you can’t find “Safely remove hardware” icon, you can try this trick.
Click Start – Run and type:
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
Then click Ok
“Safely Remove Hardware” window will show up, and you can stop the device you wanted to remove from your computer.
If you think this problem appear many times and you need to make this process simpler, you can create Shortcut Icon in Desktop.
Right click on Desktop – New – Shortcut and Create shortcut window will show up.
In Type the location of the item, put this code
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
and click Next.
Then, change the name for this shortcut to anyname you want, but to remember it easily, you can name it Safely Remove Hardware, then click Finish.
Now, if you face the same problem, and you need to remove your device, simply double click Safely Remove Hardware on Desktop.
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