August 22, 2005
Disconnecting a USB device
In Windows XP if you want to disconnect a USB device you can right click on the tray icon and follow that up with about 2-3 more clicks. I just discovered that instead of right-clicking you can left click the icon and you get a popup menu which will disconnect any connected device. I know to some of you this may seem trivial, but it was a revelation to me. Instead of thinking "Why did they use this horrible interface that takes so many clicks to unplug something?" now I can just do what I need to do quickly.
Posted by ramk at August 22, 2005 11:05 AM
i've known about that for a while, but on my laptop and my computer at work, it always says "unable to stop the device" so i just yank it. i've never lost data so now i don't even try to stop it.
doesn't matter cause i lost my memory stick, 512 Megs down the drain...