Hi. Is there a way, in W98, to get an icon in the Sys tray in order 2 select Safe remove just B4 disconnecting a USB device (Mem stick) ? Or is there a way using registry, Control panel, etc. ?

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|Is there a way, in W98, to get an icon in the Sys tray
|in order 2 select Safe remove just B4 disconnecting a USB device (Mem stick) ?
| Tom

It appears no one has told you lately
that your childish IM-speak outside IM channels makes you look like a fool.


The implementation of USB in Windows 98 is incomplete.
This is one of the things that is not supported.

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Since USB mass storage devices use different drivers under Windows 98, some of the drivers will show the USB "eject hardware" icon in the taskbar and some will not.

For those drivers that do not show this icon, you simply remove the device when it's not active (ie. being read or written to).

There are "Generic USB Mass Storage Drivers" available for Win9x systems, such as Maximus Decim Win98SE English or Cruzer Win95.

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Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home

Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro

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|Since USB mass storage devices use different drivers under Windows 98,
|some of the drivers will show the USB "eject hardware" icon in the taskbar
|and some will not.
| DNA

Whether the menu has the Eject entry or not,
I have never seen it fail to throw an error
when a USB device was disconnected under W98.

Have all the W98 systems/drivers I've seen in use been atypical?

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"Whether the menu has the Eject entry or not, I have never seen it fail to throw an error when a USB device was disconnected under W98. Have all the W98 systems/drivers I've seen in use been atypical?"

All of my 98 systems are now using the Maximus Decim Generic driver, but my Media Gear Keychain SD and SM card readers had no Eject taskbar icon with their Win98 drivers, and I could simply pull them out when they were not active reading/writing, without any problem. If an Explorer window was open, their Removable Disk icon would vanish right away.

The other USB peripherals I had, had the Eject taskbar icons with their Win98 drivers. Sometimes I'd see two icons at once (you could hover to see which icon ejected which device!)

Technically, I should have right-clicked "Eject" on the Removable Disk icons for the MediaGear card readers, but it seemed as if their driver was in fact designed for safe 'quick removal' (similar to disabling write-behind caching for removable drives within Windows XP, so that they can be 'safely removed' without clicking on the USB icon - a.k.a. the "Optimize for quick removal" setting).

My aunt and uncle use this setting on their XP computer, and I still 'freak' for a split second when they pull a flash drive out without clicking on the USB icon!

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Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home

Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro

IBM ThinkPad PIII 933 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2

Windows 2000 Server in the basement

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You've got to see and use one similar to what DNA is saying and then you can comment 
afterwards. I have one.







On Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 4:35 pm, gewg_ wrote:

>|Since USB mass storage devices use different drivers under Windows 98,

>|some of the drivers will show the USB "eject hardware" icon in the taskbar

>|and some will not.

>| DNA

>

>Whether the menu has the Eject entry or not,

>I have never seen it fail to throw an error

>when a USB device was disconnected under W98.

>

>Have all the W98 systems/drivers I've seen in use been atypical?
 

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rightclicking and choosing eject causes this computer to freeze.  anyone had a similar 
experience?

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