Why do I need to use Safely Remove Hardwre function, if it is possible to enable option "Optimize for quick removal"? We know 2 reasons to use safe removal:

1. To eliminate special feature of human brain - forgetfullness. If you always indulge in pulling out your USB stick without Safe Removal, you will forget ocassionally that you have opened a document from your stick where you made a lot of changes.
2. Any device, especially so complex device as USB hard drive, might be damaged, as a result of sharp voltage swing

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The most common reason is certain program has opened files on your device drive. It's quite often happen so that you have closed all the programs on your desktop, but device is still locked... Probably it is locked by one of the background processes runnging on your computer. Ie it might be your antivirus or another "anti-" sowftware (anti-malware, anty-spyware and etc). USB Safely Remove allows you to detect any reason of device locking and to get rid of this reason easily.

USB Safely Remove replaces native Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system tray by its own icon. By default the program display icon always, it gives more clear and straightforward management of removable devices. it makes program behaviour more predictable for a user.
If you want the icon hide itself when there are no devices to be stopped, just enable option "Hide icon when there are no devices to be stopped". You can find this option at the tab "Look and Feel" of the program options dialog

You cannot remove devices from native Safely Remove Hardware menu, but USB Safely Remove allows you to remove any device in one movement. Just launch quick stop menu, right-click to the device, and choose item "Hide device from the tray menu" in the device context menu.

Sometimes Windows doesn't display some of hotpug devices, such as SATA, IEE1394 (Firewire). There is a trick how you can stop such "invisible" devices:

1. Go to the Device Manager (Start button -> Control Panel -> System -> Hardware tab -> Device Manager button)
2. Find your device in the "Disk drives" section
3. Right click to the selected device and choose "Disable" item from the displayed menu.

Please, note! If there are no any programs having opened files on the device drive, device's icon will be marked as disabled. If the system shows you request to reboot, do not believe your eyes :) Actually, it means that there are something preventing device from being stopped - one or more programs that are having open files on the drive. Just close these files and repeat operation again.

If you need to unplug such devices often you can take a look at USB Safely Remove - guaranteed safe removal in one click.

By default the program displays quick stop menu on a hotkey pressing, where you can choose required device using keyboard. But if you usually have only one removable device connected at a time, you will probably prefer to use "Stop immediatelly" option (see it at the "Hotkeys" tab of the program options dialog). After enabling this option, the program will stop a device immediatelly after pressing Win+S hotkey if there is only one device to be stopped or it will display the menu in other case.

Just enable the option "Show volume names instead of device names" at the tab "General" of the program options dialog.

For starters, make sure this device is not listed among hidden devices ( open Main window, and see section "Hidden devices"). Then, go to the program options, switch to the "General" tab and check "Display all storage devices" option. After pressing "OK" you will see in quick stop menu your device and some other devices you never need (and unable) to stop. Just hide them from menu for comfortable work with your device.

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