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Windows Vista Lost safe to remove icon

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by Robert White, 2010/07/29.

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    Robert White

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    :confused:Well it finally happened. Lost the safe to remove icon. I have done all the standard fixes and still can't get the icon back. went in to the control pannel found it and set it to show etc still no icon rebooted etc. Guess I need the forums help. vista all updates 3 gigs ram.
    Any and all recommendations welcome
     
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    Arie

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    Right-click the task bar and select Properties, select the Notification Area tab, and then click the Customize button. Check to see if Safely Remove Hardware is set to Hide in the Behavior column. If so, change it to Hide when inactive.

    Make sure that you have the latest drivers installed, especially for your motherboard and BIOS.

    What happens when you run this command: rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
     
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    Robert White

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    I di the first two there I will have to wait till I get home.
    Thanks
     
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    Robert White

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    It gives me an error missing entry :control
     
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    Arie

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    Did you copy/paste the command correctly?

    Code:
    rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
    Your error usually happens when you forget the _ (uderscore) between Control and Run.
     
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    Robert White

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    No you are correct I missed the underscore. Should have put on my glasses.
    I was not able to copy/paste from your post, is there a way to do that? I manually copied it into the command prompt.
    Thanks
    Will try again soon as I get home.
     
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    Arie

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    Copy the text, then in a command prompt, right click in this window & from the menu choose Paste.
     
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    Robert White

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    Thanks don't know wy it did not paste when I did that the first time the command brought up a dialogue box which was empty but the box indicated I could click on anything displayed click on it and then when notified safely disconnect it.:confused:
     
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    Arie

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    So there's nothing that uses the "Safe to Remove" function, in which case the icon isn't shown.
     
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    Robert White

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    I did have my sansa fuze plugged in at the time but will try plugging in another peripheral to make sure it sees something and see if the icon shows with something active. But I have the icon set to show not hide should it not show anyway?
     
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    The icon will only be present when a Device that is required to be Safely Removed' is plugged in, generally storage media e.g. an external hard drive, USB stick. Hardware such as USB connected printers do not require to be safely removed as they are not storage media.

    It is basically all to do with Write Caching - see screen shot for an explanation - USB stick plugged in.

    I am not into mp3 players of any flavour - check with a USB stick inserted.
     

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    Robert White

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    That has got it. It apparently does not see the fuze at all. Even though I can write to it. Problem solved. Thanks all.
     
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    You're welcome :)
     
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