In the Windows XP device manager under disk drives select your USB drive and under policies you can select optimize for quick removal. <br>This disables the write cache for the drive and you don't ...

The icon labeled “Safely Remove Hardware” has disappeared from the right side of my Taskbar. How can I get it back? The Safely Remove Hardware icon that crops up on the Taskbar is part of the plug-and ...

Sometimes, the “Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media” menu in the system tray shows devices that the user doesn’t need to remove, such as USB network adapters, Type-C monitors, SATA/SSD drives ...

Gah. It would be handy to be able to get rid of that icon. One of our new servers is running 2k3 and has some hot-swappable hardware -- that icon is always there.<BR><BR>"No, I do not want to stop the ...