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Safe removal hardware gone from in tray

by Hedwich Aug 25, 2005 5:58PM PDT

Recently I acquired an Olympus digital camera, installed the software and successfully transferred files to my pc. However, suddenly the little programme in the in-tray which you use to safely remove hardware disapears from the tray after I have safely removed either the USB cable or the xD SM card (whichever one I used to transfer files from the camera), and I can no longer find it in the startup list in Winpatrol or in Spybot, nor is it visible in start-> programs. I have to restart the pc to have this utility available again.
This never happens with the removable discs I use in the USB ports.
can anybody tell me what is wrong? or how to find the program/utility without a restart?
I have WIN XP home SP2, fully updated.
Hedwich

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Has it gone, or is it just inactive?
by MarkFlax Forum moderator Aug 25, 2005 9:15PM PDT

Just a thought.

Right click the Start menu, select Properties. Under the Taskbar tab, if your "Hide inactive icons" is ticked, select Customize and see if the icon is marked as "hide when inactive".

Mark

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(NT) (NT) wish it were that simple...
by Hedwich Aug 26, 2005 1:12AM PDT
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I only have the icon
by glb613 Aug 25, 2005 10:04PM PDT

showing when I have something plugged into the computer. If I safely remove all of the hardware, the icon disappears. Have you tried plugging in the camera and see if it shows up again?

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icon missing and missing in my computer too
by Hedwich Aug 26, 2005 1:16AM PDT

yes, tried both camera with USB cord and xD picture card, in card reader, neither shows in 'my computer' when the icon is no longer in the in tray

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Re: Safely Remove Hardware Icon
by Tufenuf Aug 26, 2005 1:44AM PDT
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by Alan Copeland Aug 25, 2005 10:14PM PDT

I ran across this when I got my new HP Pavilion. When your camera/card reader/etc is plugged into a USB port, it shows up in My Computer by some name. After transferring pictures, rather than using the safely remove hardware icon, double click My Computer, right click the appropriate drive(probably OlyXXX) and scroll down to eject and double click. As soon as the drive changes names back to Removable Disk, you can safely remove the camera/card/whatever. This is the article HP sent me. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?lc=en&&docname=bph07910&dlc=en

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thanks for your message
by Hedwich Aug 26, 2005 1:18AM PDT

but see my reply to previous message, unfortunately this does not work for me
Hedwich

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Hedwich
by Alan Copeland Aug 26, 2005 2:05AM PDT

You will have to restart the PC to get the icon back in the system tray, but if you follow my recomemndation you will not lose it every time. It seems like a lot of work, but it really takes less time than using the icon.

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Alan,
by Hedwich Aug 26, 2005 9:04PM PDT

Thanks! I did, and it works; is not a lot of work either (expecialy if you include not having to restart)
Hedwich

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My pleasure
by Alan Copeland Aug 27, 2005 6:29AM PDT

Glad that did the trick. As stated, I had the same problem until I finally read the tech article.

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