Ever found yourself searching for the way to safely remove the USB stick in Windows 7, it is lost in the status bar?
| Getting to this is very picky at times |  |
| So the way is to create a desktop shortcut as follows: |  |
| Right click the desktop select New then Shortcut
In Location "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll" – it is case sensitive |
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| Give it a nice name |  |
| You can give it a nice icon if you want, Right Click the icon and select Properties |  |
| Click Change Icon |  |
| Browse to shell32.dll and pick your icon |  |
| OK and OK | |
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| When you double click you get so you can select the device you want to remove. |  |
This tip was inspired from the official Windows Magazine.