Reader Dane wrote in seeking help with this hassle: “After using Safely Remove Hardware for my SD card, I have to reboot my PC before my PC will recognize another SD card. Is there a way for the PC to ...

We all know that one person who annoyingly reminds you to use “Safely Remove Hardware” before pulling the USB drive out of the slot. They shouldn’t bother you anymore. As Betanews first noted, ...

I have a system running Windows Server 2008 that has developed a problem with the Safely Remove Hardware feature. The icon for it does not appear in the tray.<BR><BR>I've tried googling it and most ...

For safety purposes as well as to prevent corrupting the data inside the external hard drive, it is highly recommended to safely eject the external hard drive. Although most Windows 10 already has a ...

I installed my new Brother MFC 3100C canner/printer combo, and ever since then, in my system tray, there is an icon that when I hover over it, sayd "safely remove hardware". What the hell is thing? It ...

One of the most annoying Windows features ever, one that lasted through many iterations of Microsoft's popular operating system, was the prompt to safely remove a storage drive before actually yanking ...

Most Windows users have become conditioned over time to never unplug a USB flash drive or hard drive without first clicking Safely Remove Hardware in the System Tray. Why is that necessary? In theory, ...

For whatever reason, the "Safely Remove Hardware" dialog always seems a bit less than convenient to get to for me—mine is usually hidden behind that expanding arrow, and clicking through all the right ...

If you’ve been bitten by this bug there is now a fix. The bug only manifests itself in Vista if you left-click on the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the task tray and then click Safely Remove ...

Microsoft has modified the way Windows 10 handles the operation of disconnecting a USB or Thunderbolt storage device. This includes USB thumb drives, external hard drives, flash drives, and even USB ...