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Remove hardware from "Safely Remove Hardware" list
Hi,
I'm currently running Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit. I have an internal card reader in my system. When I turn on my system with the card reader connected, the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon pops up. I would like to remove the internal card reader from this, mainly because I don't want to accidentally click on it, and I don't believe it should be there as there it does not actually need to be removed. I want it to act like a floppy disk drive or a CD ROM drive for example. I don't want a solution where I hide the icon and I don't want to remove the icon altogether, as I do use a USB key too. Thanks -John T. |
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Remove hardware from "Safely Remove Hardware" list
-John T wrote:
Hi, I'm currently running Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit. I have an internal card reader in my system. When I turn on my system with the card reader connected, the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon pops up. I would like to remove the internal card reader from this, mainly because I don't want to accidentally click on it, and I don't believe it should be there as there it does not actually need to be removed. This can be achieved by modifying a registry value. So far I had no time writing a little tool for this... Devices are shown there if they are marked as removable and if they do no have the 'surprise removal ok' flag. These are bit coded flags: From cfgmgr32.h: #define CM_DEVCAP_REMOVABLE (0x00000004) #define CM_DEVCAP_SURPRISEREMOVALOK (0x00000080) The device capabilities are found in the registry in a value named 'Capabilities' under (sample for one of my USB flash drives): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\U SB\Vid_058f&Pid_6331\058F091111B If you take away 4 from the value or add 80h and then refresh the save removal dialog by toggeling the checkbox, then the drive is gone. But the value is reset when you attach the drive for the next time. This is hard coded into the driver and read each time the drive is loaded. If you export the modified value an reg file then you can silently load it on startup by regedit /s hidecardreader.reg The device id string of your card reader (this Vid_058f&Pid_6331\058F091111B thing) is found in the properties of the USB device in the device manager. My ListUsbDrives tool shows it too (the 'Ctrl DevID'): http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip Greetings from Germany Uwe |