Monday 31 October 2011

Create a desktop short cut to safely remove hardware devices

Every time you want to plugin any external storage media like USB/Memory Card, it is very important that you remove it safely so that the data inside it is safe. Most if the time we forget it. ou can create shortcut to safely remove hardware device on you Desktop which is more visible and can be easily used to remove the hardware devices.

Right click on your desktop. Click on 'new' and then on 'shortcut'.



In the browse location just copy and paste the following line of text and click 'next'
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll


Now name the short cut with what ever you think is appropriate(like remove safely) and click finish.

You should now  see short cut on your desktop. This trick works for windows 7 and windows vista. 


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