Unplug or Eject Hardware Icon missing

[Guest George W. Barrowcliff]

The "Unplug or Eject Hardware" Icon in the tool bar at the bottom of the

screen disappeared a few days ago. How can I add it back?

 

TIA

[Guest Juan I. Cahis]

Re: Unplug or Eject Hardware Icon missing

 

Dear George, that problem happens very often.

 

Please, create a shortcut in your desktop of this program:

 

"%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL

hotplug.dll"

 

Note that there is one blank space before "shell32.dll" and another

before "hotplug.dll". No other blank spaces should be there, and

please try it with the quotes and without the quotes.

 

It works very well in my WinXP machine, I understand that it should

work in a Win2k machine too.

 

 

"George W. Barrowcliff" <george.barrowcliff@flash.net> wrote:

>The "Unplug or Eject Hardware" Icon in the tool bar at the bottom of the

>screen disappeared a few days ago. How can I add it back?

>

>TIA

>

Thanks

Juan I. Cahis

Santiago de Chile (South America)

Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

[Guest Roger Fink]

Re: Unplug or Eject Hardware Icon missing

 

George W. Barrowcliff wrote:

> The "Unplug or Eject Hardware" Icon in the tool bar at the bottom of

> the screen disappeared a few days ago. How can I add it back?

>

> TIA

 

Bottom Up method: Insert a USB flash drive and then unplug the device

through the control panel (System/Hardware/Hardware Wizard/Uninstall-Unplug

a Device/Unplug-Eject a Device/USB Mass Storage Device). The final box

offers you a checkbox to show the unplug icon in the system tray.

Apparently, the underlying vision behind this was "How can we make this as

hairy/nerve-wracking as possible?" If it doesn't work, there may be a Top

Down method as well for System Administrators.

[Guest Roger Fink]

Re: Unplug or Eject Hardware Icon missing

 

 

 

Roger Fink wrote:

> George W. Barrowcliff wrote:

>> The "Unplug or Eject Hardware" Icon in the tool bar at the bottom of

>> the screen disappeared a few days ago. How can I add it back?

>>

>> TIA

>

> Bottom Up method: Insert a USB flash drive and then unplug the device

> through the control panel (System/Hardware/Hardware

> Wizard/Uninstall-Unplug a Device/Unplug-Eject a Device/USB Mass

> Storage Device). The final box offers you a checkbox to show the

> unplug icon in the system tray. Apparently, the underlying vision

> behind this was "How can we make this as hairy/nerve-wracking as

> possible?" If it doesn't work, there may be a Top Down method as well

> for System Administrators.

 

If you find the box already checked, try unchecking it, complete the flash

drive removal, reinsert the flash drive, and remove it again through the

control panel, this time rechecking the icon box. I haven't tried it, but

that methodology has solved a few Mozilla problems for me in the past.