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Buffer			Make your own “Safely Remove Hardware” shortcut (Windows) Hopefully you know that when you’re using things like external drives that you should click the “Remove safely” icon from your system...

Make your own “Safely Remove Hardware” shortcut (Windows)

Hopefully you know that when you’re using things like external drives that you should click the “Remove safely” icon from your system tray, before you unplug them. You do know that don’t you? Well, thanks to the eternal strangeness of Windows, sometimes that icon isn’t available in the system tray. So, make your own!

Create a shortcut, anywhere you like to the following DLL file:

A good place to put the shortcut is either in your QuickLaunch bar or somewhere off of the Start menu.