Safely Remove Hardware Icon Missing
If your usb stick or external hard drive is successfully recognized by the system and works just fine except that the safely remove hardware icon is missing you can disable the device via safely remove hardware dialog.
Safely remove hardware icon missing. Go to properties from the drop down menu. In the new window that opens click change settings. Select the desired drive and click on the properties button below. Scroll to windows explorer.
To create a shortcut. Press windows key r and paste the rundll32 exe shell32 dll control rundll hotplug dll command in the run. Go to the control panel add remove hardware add remove windows components. Just run the shortcut or batch file and the safely remove hardware dialog window will appear.
Safely remove hardware and eject media and turn it on. Find safely remove hardware in the list that appears and choose always show. In the type the location of the item box type in or copy and paste the rundll line of text from above. Switch to the hardware top tab.
At this point you can insert a usb thumb drive and see if the usb safely remove hardware icon appears in the tray bar. To find out right click on the taskbar and select taskbar settings. Under notification area choose select which icons appear on the taskbar. Safely remove hardware icon missing from notification area if you can t find the safely remove hardware icon then right click on the taskbar and select taskbar settings.
Right click the notification area then click customize notifications. For windows 10 select the slider to on. Windows explorer safely eject hardware and remove media and select show icon and notifications for windows xp vista 7 and 8. Press and hold or right click the icon and select the hardware you want to remove.
Scroll a little to find windows explorer safely. Under notification heading click on select which icons appear in the taskbar. To safely remove the device launch explorer and in the list of disks right click on the disk that you want to safely remove. Right click on the desktop and click on new shortcut.