Solved Safely Remove Hardware icon is present. Will not display popup "Safe..

[techs]

Safely Remove Hardware icon is present. Will not display popup "Safe..

Safely Remove Hardware icon is present. Will not display popup "Safe to Remove Hardware"

It's got me stumped. I have the safe to remove icon present in my notification area, both when I hide some icons and when I choose to show all the icons.

When I plug in either a usb flash drive, or an external usb hard drive and I want to eject it, I can right click the icon and see the drive. Then I click Eject (whichever drive is plugged in). I used to get the Safe to Remove Hardware popup, but now I don't.

So far I have been able to remove and reinsert the drives after clicking remove it and have not gotten any error message.

I followed the tips in the tutorial thread: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10169-safely-remove-hardware-eject-device.html but nothing seemed to work.

I ran sfc /scannow with no problems detected. I toggled thru the option in the Customize notification options and no resolution.

I would like to uninstall the usb ports in device manager but my computer only has usb ports for keyboard and mouse.

I am running an i3 on an H55 mobo. Windows 7 Pro with SP1

Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[derekimo]

Maybe the enable balloon notifications will bring them back,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11442-notifications-enable-disable-message-balloons.html

 

[techs]

Maybe the enable balloon notifications will bring them back,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11442-notifications-enable-disable-message-balloons.html

The instant I saw the term "balloon" I knew you had the answer. I had completely forgotten that term and could only think of "popup". It has been years since anyone has asked me to disable them (I'm a computer tech) and couldn't remember they are called balloons. In fact, I have a folder in my toolkit called balloons with info on how to enable or disable them! You're link to the reg key fix worked perfectly.

Thanks!

 

[derekimo]

Excellent. Glad you got it working again.

You're welcome.

 

[instroelect]

Hi Guy's,
I've got the same problem with the USB safely remove hardware on my windows 7 laptop, can you please email regedit location for the toggling the balloon notification on or off - thanks.