Safely remove usb devices tray icon Poblem!

ACR731 said:

I had this exact problem.... After a clean install the icon would work fine. I like to take full ownership of my PC (C drive). Why? Because its my computer, not Microsoft's. They aren't about to tell me what I can or can not access on my PC.

Anyway, I noticed if I assigned full ownership to the username I had in place, the problem you are experiencing would start immediately afterwards. I searched for a resolution for weeks, but had no luck. This would only happen whenever I took full ownership of my PC.

Long story short, I decided one day to do a little tinkering. I did another clean install, and when I got to the point during the rebuild where I would normally take full ownership of C:, I decided to assign ownership to the administrators group, rather than to a specific user. And wouldn't you know, this resolved the problem and the remove hardware icon worked as it should from that point on. To verifiy that I had identified the problem, I did another clean install on a separate HDD, assigned full ownership of C: to the username, and the problem immediately returned.

I'm stumped as to why messing with rights and ownership would have anything to do with an icon for safely removing hardware, but it did. You may want to try this and see if works for you.


FYI: I am using the same version of windows as you (from MSDN) and I have the same portable HDD.

This is because Microsoft designed it this way. Why? Because thousands and thousands of users kept destroying their machines, corporate programmed malware and viruses (for finical gain), and 15 year old kids keep writing viruses. Microsoft got so tired of people destroying their machines and all the viruses they started locking the average user out of stuff they do not need access to, to protect the machine. One of the biggest complaints Microsoft received was “I want my machine to stop crashing”, “locking up”, and “give us more stability”. So they protected the areas that should only be access if you know exactly what you are doing as well as blocking malware and viruses. So taking ownership is exposing your machine to all of this.

You are only asking for trouble every time you take ownership. I keep reading over and over and over and over in this forum how people take ownership and then wonder why something does not work. The solution is: Clean Install. If you don’t mind malware, viruses or doing clean installs then I guess it is ok.

Just my 2 cents: I am not bashing or creating any flaming.

Mike Connor said:

Try resetting your icon cache;

CCleaner will reset the icons;



This helps with quite a few tray icon problems.

However, if you have disabled or changed a lot of services and other stuff the problems are most likely due to that.

Regards....Mike Connor

Careful, when I clicked on the picture, the Image Shack page came up - but also a virus. It could be coincidental, but it is better safe than sorry.

utilities said:

Solution:
Ensure Bluetooth Support Service is running (even you do not use Bluetooth!)

I have that service set to "Manual".
I DON'T have support4u's problem.