Solved Safely remove usb devices tray icon Poblem!

[support4u]

Hey i got a very weird problem!
I cannot LEFT or RICHT click, the Safely remove usb devices tray icon.


So its there allright, if i hover over the tray icon with the mouse, it even shows me a pop-up "Safely remove usb devices"
but i cannot click on it..!!!?

wtf is this? anyone ever had this before?
can i fix this.

USB flash driver can be ejected thru "this computer" but a usb HDD can't, so its very annoying!

maby it has something to do with a service i disabled? i allready checkt some things thru, maby i miss something here.. or maby its just an annoying bug.


looking forward for a solution, or a idea!

thanks in advance!

 

[Darryl Licht]

Welcome to the sevenforums support4u.

A strange problem indeed... a few questions and thoughts:

What version Win7 and where did you get it?
Do you have any non default settings for the Notification area turned on? (right click on taskbar choose properties)

Any custom toolbars?
Try turning off AV, does it still happen?

 

[support4u]

Hey, Darryl Licht

I have windows 7 profesional from MSDN
The icon workt before, but i did some service tweaking.

- Windows Firewall is completly shutdown
- I got Zonealarm extreme, i turnd it off also, still cant click the icon!
- Got no custom bars!
- Got no custom notifications.

 

[support4u]

Tried these thru run:

"%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll"

and

"rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll"

both show me the remove dialog.


why the hell can't i click on the sys tray icon?

can i re-add the sys icon somehow?

 

[Darryl Licht]

Sounds like you need to undo the service tweaks you did that caused this in the first place... or maybe a Windows repair might work?

Remember this saying: "If it aint broke, dont fix it"

 

[support4u]

I tried, booting in save mode,

there i had no problems.

I only got 1 account: administrator
so no other accounts,

which services apply to my problem?
cause i already undone/undo/undid my tweaks!
yes and i rebooted..


plz, help me out!

 

[Jacee]

usb HDD <-- does this have an off and on switch? If it's turned off, you can safely remove it.

 

[support4u]

Humz. its funny, i get the same questions and awnsers back form other people

Its my fault offcourse. i should supply such info myself within the post.
but hey, i'm only human.

No, no on/off switch

Its an WD passport.
but still it does not matter about what kind of usb where talking.
i cannot click on the damn sys tray icon! ( and yes i tried several different devices)



anyone know which services are needed for that damn icon/process.

and read the previous posts,.. plz for more info..

damn, damn, what a weird problem i got... i cannot find anything about it on google..
its realy frustrading.

And a awnser in advance. no system recovery! i got that disabled

 

[Jacee]

Have you tried either of these two methods?

1. Right click on the USB drive icon in My Computer.
Select the Hardware tab.
Select your USB drive and click on Properties.
Now click on Policies tab.

2. Right Click on My Computer.
Select Manage.
Select USB Mass Storage Device under the USB Controller.
Right Click and Disable it.
Remove your USB drive and Enable it again

 

[support4u]

dear jacee

1 done
2 done, but still this will not cover my problem!
i cannot click the damn icon. so disabling services/drivers and then remove hardware is not a solution.

thanks anyway

 

[Darryl Licht]

Have you tried a system restore to a date when it was working?

 

[support4u]

i got that disabled.

 

[Darryl Licht]

Bummer!

 

[CarlTR6]

i got that disabled.

Now you have a good reason to enable it.

 

[support4u]

typical windows user talk. no offence!
but for serious problems we got backups.

this is something small, and enoying. that u can live with, but u like to see it fixt.

so, no i will never enable it..

but i can see, no one has a solution for me. and thats bummer.
ill skip the problem. and leave it for what it is.!

anyway, all thanks for thinking with me!

 

[CarlTR6]

typical windows user talk. no offence!
but for serious problems we got backups.

this is something small, and enoying. that u can live with, but u like to see it fixt.

so, no i will never enable it..

but i can see, no one has a solution for me. and thats bummer.
ill skip the problem. and leave it for what it is.!

anyway, all thanks for thinking with me!

I agree with you. I have image backups. But for a quick fix for a small problem, the restore points work well for me.

If you figure it out, please let us know.

 

[WindowsStar]

Have you tried: secpol.msc

 

[support4u]

humz, that was a pretty good suggestion windowsstar

it was not defined, but i was already the one and only administrator.
so it dident work.
i don't understand, in safe mode i don't have this problem!

 

[Darryl Licht]

How about creating a 2nd "test" user with admin rights... see if issues exists there...?

 

[ACR731]

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.