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Hotkey For Safely Remove Hardware in Windows

Posted by Vishnu | On: Feb 10 2009

Well we all use USB devices everyday it may a Pen drive,Digital Camera,Card Readers or a Cell Phone and we use to connect these devices to our PC for data transfer.While removing this devices from PC  we have to give Safely Remove Hardware option by clicking a task bar icon near to the data and time.If you find difficulty in doing this by clicking that icon every time here in this post we will show you a nice tip to enable a hot key for Safely Remove Hardware option that will make it much simple and easy.So let us start :) safely-remove-pic

1.Give a Right click on your desktop from the context menu select New and then navigate to Shortcut

2.Now a box will appear past the following command on that box and click Next(Ref the pic below)

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

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3.Give a name for your shortcut some thing like( Safely Remove)and click Finish button

4.Now a shortcut icon will appears on your desktop Right Click on that and select Properties

5.Under the shortcut key tab Assign a hot key of your wish and click Apply all Done(Ref the Fig below)safely-remov

Now all you have to do is press the hot key that you assigned to remove usb devices connected to your PC.This will work with all version of windows

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