How To: Shortcut (and hotkey) for “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog
If you’re anything like us, you’re plugging and unplugging your USB thumb drives (and other usb devices) all day, multiple times a day. Hopefully you’re right clicking on the little “Remove Hardware Safely” icon in your system tray 
in order to remove and avoid damaging or losing data from your USB drives/devices. The problem is, it becomes kind of a pain if you’re constantly switching out or removing USB drives. This tutorial will show you how to create a shortcut for the “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog, and as if that weren’t cool enough, we’ll even show you how to create a hotkey to bring up the dialog with one keystroke.
Step 1 - Create a shortcut to the Safely Remove Hardware dialog. To do this, right-click anywhere on your desktop, and select New / Shortcut.
Step 2 - Paste the following text into the Location box:
Step 3 - Give your new shortcut a name - we named ours “Eject Devices”
Step 4 - Assign a shortcut key. To do this, right click on your new Eject Devices icon, click on “Properties”, then click on the “Shortcut” tab. In the box that says “Shortcut key” enter the shortcut key(s) you want to use. Click ok, and you’re done!
2 Comments
usbhacker on March 30th, 2009
Hi Bob,
To answer your question, no, when you execute your shortcut, you’ll get a dialog box that will ask you which device you’d like to eject (if you have multiple devices connected). this is the same dialog box that would pop up if you just clicked on the “remove devices” icon in your systray. hope that is helpful.
bob on March 29th, 2009
what happens if u have 2 hardware devices in you computer? does it eject both of them or all of them?