USB Safely Remove Help - How to stop a device with a hotkey

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How to stop a device with a hotkey

Global hotkeys. What is it and what for it is necessary?

Hotkeys (or keyboard shortcuts) are globally defined key combinations which allows to stop a device staying in any application using the keyboard. You needn't to use the mouse, just press a defined key combination to:

Stop a device
Browse a content of device drives!

It's an ideal solution for those who spend much time working with the keyboard (programmers, technical writers). For such people it is the most convenient and quick way to stop devices, because it let them not taking their hands off the keyboard.

Hotkey is a combination of a modifier key (Ctrl, Alt, Ctrl+Alt, Win and etc) and main key ("A", "B", "1", "F5" and etc). Hotkey examples: Win+S, Ctrl+Alt+A, Alt+Shift+F5 and etc.

Using hotkeys, comfortable work

USB Safely Remove gives 2 handy ways of ejecting a device with a hot-key:

Displaying the stop menu with a hot-key (default way)
You can call the stop menu by pressing a hotkey (Win+S by default). If there are some devices in the menu, you can choose the required one with "Up"\"Down" keys and then press "Enter" key to stop it.

Would you like to browse a device drive using the keyboard? To do it call the menu with a hotkey, select the device and press "Ctrl+B".
"Stop immediately" technology.
When you are calling the stop menu with a hotkey, if there is only one device in the menu it can be stopped automatically without displaying the stop menu. To activate this behavior go to the program options -> "General" tab and enable "Stop immediately" check box.

Besides, USB Safely Remove allows to assign a separated hotkey to stop a certain device. It may be useful if you have a device that needs being stopped much often than other devices.

Useful tips on hotkeys

In order to close the stop menu that is called by a hotkey, just press "ESC" button!
To change or add a hotkey to call the menu or for "Stop immediately", proceed to the program options -> "Global hotkeys" tab and enable there "Use Stop Menu Hotkey" option (If it hasn't been enabled yet) as well as setup key combination in the drop down lists below.
To assign a hotkey to stop a certain device, call the Device properties dialog and at the "Common" tab enable "Use separated global hotkey for stopping the device" check box and choose a key combination for stopping the device below.