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Lately the safely remove hardware icon has been missing in my taskbar in windows XP. With some devices I can simply power them down and unplug them, but others, such as external hard drives, require me to shut down the computer to unplug them.
While the safely remove hardware dialog does have an option to hide the icon from the taskbar, it is not checked for me.
If I right click on the taskbar I can click on “customize notifications”, and safely remove hardware will be listed under inactive notifications. I can change it from “hide when inactive” to “always show”, but it still doesn’t show in the taskbar, even behind the hidden taskbar icon toggle.
Furthermore if I get to the safely remove hardware dialog, through a hack shown to me on another forum, the devices I wish to safely remove are not listed.
It turns out that this is a symptom of having Quickinstaller and LibUSB installed, a utility for interfacing with foreign USB devices such as CVS camcorders. Part of the consequence of hacking camcorders I guess is breaking part of windows’ USB handling. While I have not solved how to restore the icon while having LibUSB installed, at least I know what’s causing it now.
More info here:
http://camerahacks.10.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=1533

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