Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media icon Missing in Windows 10

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  1. Posts : 10
    windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #11

    brett, you did help me by telling me about the USB and the SD cards being different. The little eject Icon did show up when I put the SD card in. I just didn't know. I thought all strange things entering into the computer needed permission to leave. Thank for your help. Thanks to everyone. Glad I found you guys. I'll save you in my favorites as I have yet to have windows 10 save my browsing history, another irritant of windows 10. When I have the energy to battle that, I will be back.
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  2. Posts : 4,224
    Windows 10
       #12

    Oops! I shoulda read the OP more closely. I apologize for the red herring I dragged into the discussion. But I also learned something useful and valuable: indeed my USB external drives don't offer Eject while memory cards and flash drives do. Thanks!
    I did, however, find a nice third-party utility called "RemoveDrive" that can do exactly what's needed from the command line.
    HTH,
    --Ed--
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  3. HRC
    Posts : 76
    Windows 10 Home 2004
       #13

    I have 3 USB hard drives and I get the eject icon for all of them.
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  4. Posts : 31,471
    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
       #14

    HRC said:
    I have 3 USB hard drives and I get the eject icon for all of them.
    Yes, the eject icon on the taskbar ejects USB hard drives as well as cards/sticks. It's only in File Explorer that you can't eject a USB HDD. Bit of a problem for the OP as they still haven't got their icon to appear on the taskbar, File Explorer is all they can use.
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  5. Posts : 10
    windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #15

    HRC said:
    I have 3 USB hard drives and I get the eject icon for all of them.
    wish I did, would make me more comfortable although I don't use either very much.
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  6. Posts : 10
    windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #16

    I guess I'll just make do. Thanks everyone. Tara
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  7. Posts : 31,471
    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
       #17

    catara said:
    I clicked on for the volume and the eject thingy to move to my taskbar, but only the volume showed up.
    Well, it should show up for any USB drive, memory stick or HDD - not just for SD cards. If it doesn't now appear for all of them, something is not working right. Sometimes a restart can fix issues like this (a shutdown may not be enough, not if 'fast shutdown' is in use).

    If a restart doesn't fix it, then try creating another account. Does the icon work properly for that one?

    As a workaround until we get the icon back, you can get a 'safely remove hardware' dialog box by running (from a command prompt or with WinKey + R) the command: RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

    You could make a shortcut on your desktop to run this, if you wish.
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  8. Posts : 10
    windows 10
    Thread Starter
       #18

    how do I set up a short cut for that?


    I guess I am still a novice when it comes to all this. I do miss my windows 7...
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  9. Posts : 31,471
    10 Home x64 (22H2) (10 Pro on 2nd pc)
       #19

    catara said:
    how do I set up a short cut for that?... I do miss my windows 7...
    Actually, this bit still works the same as it did in 7. Right-click on the desktop, select New > Shortcut. In the 'Type the location of the item' box type the command line. Click next, give it a name, click Finish and you're done.
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