Eject USB shortcut desktop

[NotHereToPlayGames]

19 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

I think we all understood it as you use it at home, too, no?

No.

But more importantly, why the derailing of the OP's topic?

[NotHereToPlayGames]

13 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Re:  desktop shortcut  --  https://superuser.com/questions/443162/remove-usb-device-from-command-line

 

@bookie32  --  after a whole page of derailment, did the above link solve your issue?  the discussion in that link can very easily be converted to a desktop .bat file.

[D.Draker]

3 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

No.

But more importantly, why the derailing of the OP's topic?

Where do you see derailing? I'm replying strictly regarding the tool you yourself suggested to the OP as a replacement for the icon, which it does, btw. The question is why does it need the "assistant" service?

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Then you missed when the OP replied that he doesn't want something in the systray so we had to move away from that suggestion.

No clue on assistant service, that is "OT to the OP".  I'm liking that phrase, I may trademark it.

[UCyborg]

15 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

Win7 required a registry hack to power down the USB port when the device connected to that port was "removed" via built-in removal.

Google it, hundreds of articles on it.

Might be, I said I don't recall exactly, just seem to (mis?)remember that LED on USB flash drives always powered down on my Windows systems (if this is any indication), but it's been a while since I've actually used Windows 7 specifically and don't have a usable Win7 install at hand to test. Win7 was my main OS in the older days.

I wanted to point out generalizations may not be 100% accurate. For example, if I "eject" my phone on XP x64, it still charges. If I do that on Win10, charging stops.

Edited April 25, 2024 by UCyborg

[NotHereToPlayGames]

15 minutes ago, UCyborg said:

if I "eject" my phone on XP x64, it still charges.

That would suggest that the phone is recognized as a "hub" and what is disconnected/powered down is a "secondary" port, the port that does picture/video transfer versus the port that charges the phone.

XP powers down the port when disconnected.  x86 and x64.

[Dixel]

4 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

That would suggest that the phone is recognized as a "hub" and what is disconnected/powered down is a "secondary" port, the port that does picture/video transfer versus the port that charges the phone.

XP powers down the port when disconnected.  x86 and x64.

 

8 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

No.

But more importantly, why the derailing of the OP's topic?

 

[TSNH]

I remember that on my old (not functional anymore) laptop which was running Windows Vista & Windows 7 my eternal drive would spin-down on safe-removal only when it was plugged into USB3 ports and not USB2 (same behavior on both OSes).

But what probably made the difference was that for USB3 I had AMD drivers installed, while for USB2 I didn't bother and stayed with Windows's build-in ones.

So you should probably just install drivers from AMD/Intel.

[TSNH]

On 4/24/2024 at 7:34 AM, bookie32 said:

Hi guys

Is there a way to create a desktop shortcut for ejecting a USB that doesn't open two windows?

I think you should check out Windows Sidebar port for Windows 8 and newer called 8GadgetPack, it comes with a gadget for safely-removing drives

[bookie32]

7 hours ago, NotHereToPlayGames said:

 

@bookie32  --  after a whole page of derailment, did the above link solve your issue?  the discussion in that link can very easily be converted to a desktop .bat file.

A lot of useful info....

Thank you!

51 minutes ago, TSNH said:

I think you should check out Windows Sidebar port for Windows 8 and newer called 8GadgetPack, it comes with a gadget for safely-removing drives

Also interesting...

 

Thanks guys!

I am glad you have enjoyed yourselves....

 

bookie32