Saturday, August 05, 2006

Manually Open the Safely remove hardware window

Sometimes you need to remove an external hard drive or other piece of hardware from your Windows machine, but for some reason the little "Safely Remove Hardware" icon is missing from the System tray. With this tip you can open the Safely remove hardware window if that icon is missing.

copy and paste this into Start->Run:

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

 

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