Safely Remove Hardware Shortcut
The idea of this tweak is to twofold, to save time removing USB devices, and to make sure you don’t lose data.
The problem is that the icon in the system tray is not easy to see or to use. Another advantage of a shortcut is that you can use a keyboard sequence to launch the applet.
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How to Create a Safely Remove Hardware Shortcut
The idea is to create a shortcut on your desktop which will facilitate the timely removal of device such as a memory stick without corrupting data.
Instructions to Create Shortcut to rundll32.exe:
This screenshot, below right, is designed to get you started.
- Right-click on the desktop.
- Select ‘New’.
- Next, look for ‘Shortcut’
- Copy and then paste:
C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll - Click ‘Next’
- Finish
You can right-click the shortcut, select Properties then edit the settings, for example, create a Shortcut key combination.
Target: Hotplug.dll
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The End Result – Safely Remove Hardware
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PowerShell Script to Create a Shortcut
$AppLocation = “C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe”
$WshShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$Lnk = $WshShell.CreateShortcut(“$Home\Desktop\USB.lnk”)
# $Lnk |gm
$Lnk.TargetPath = $AppLocation
$Lnk.Arguments =”shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll”
$Lnk.IconLocation = “hotplug.dll,0″
$Lnk.Hotkey =”Ctrl+Alt+U”
$Lnk.Description =”Remove Flash Drives”
$Lnk.WorkingDirectory =”C:\Windows\System32″
$Lnk.Save()
Note: With .Hotkey there must be no spaces between the keyboard shortcut combination.
Summary of Safely Remove Hardware in Windows 8
Here on this page are detailed instructions on how to create a shortcut which ensurs that you can remove a memory stick quickly, but without losing any data.
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