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The safely remove hardware icon no longer shows up in the notification area.
Review of the custom notification area under task bar finds it is listed as
a past item. Toggling from hide to show all the time does not seem to make a
difference.
USB plug and play devices such as various memory sticks or a 3 1/2" floppy
drive do not make the icon appear. In the past when the icon was present,
these same devices definitly would show as installed hardware.
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)
"Danny" <Danny@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>The safely remove hardware icon no longer shows up in the notification area.
Delete all the USB hosts in the Device Manager and restart Windows.
Also delete the hidden items: "Device Manager Does Not Display Devices
That Are Not Connected to the Windows XP-Based Computer"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315539).
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