Devices Not Showing in "Safely Remove Hardware"

Hello,
Hi All

First post!

Just got windows 7 32-bit...having a few problems.....

One I'm stuck on is that no devices are being shown in the Safely Remove Hardware Dialogue box. I know I have a device in..it's my MP3 player which I have just copied songs over too and I can play them.

There is no icon in the systems tray either. I then looked around the web and found a page showing how to create a shortcut on the desktop to activate the dialogue box. Point target to ":C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll"

Created it, got the box up but no devices showing in it when the mp3 player was plugged in. Pulled out the mp3 player without removing safely first as didn't know how....not ideal.

Any help please? Think i may be a few times with windows 7.....

Cheers
Steve

If your mp3 player is non running in usb mass storage(UMS) mode, it will not need to be safe removed.

Creative Zen for instance runs in PMP(portable Media Player) mode and does not have a safe remove option. It does not even play files off the player in the normal sense, but instead copies to a temp folder on the computer(or in some apps it can buffer off the player it self) to play files. It plays them off the player when you use the player.

You should not have to worry about this.

Some players have an option to set UMS. If not just copy to it and disconnect.

If you buy some from some music sites, you may need to keep the player in PMP mode for the songs to work anyway.

On a side note which I forgot to put into my reply...since the drives do not show in dialog box, the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon is also not present on the task bar notification area. I can Eject the drive from My Computer, and I can Read/Write to each of the drives without issue so I know that it's recognizing them as drives but Windows simply will not show them in the Safely Remove area....??

Thank you but my issue is not that i cannot safely remove the drives, it's that there is no drive listed in the SRH dialog box, nor is there an icon for it on the Task Bar either. I'm a man of perfectionism and I can't stand this one thing not working like it should on my pc. I have Windows XP 32bit SP3 btw if that helps...