Save time and money with remove USB devices shortcuts
There is a well known saying that time is money and when you save time, you save money. Due to the widespread uses of USB ports and USB devices nowadays, I think it is wise to have this post to alert readers to a potential way to save time and mental effort regarding a small little thing in life.
Again, unless you have been living under a rock, you would have use one USB device or another and often, such as flash drives, after using, often you have to stop the device before unplugging it from the USB ports. Failure to do so will result in failure of motherboard in the long run and that is not going to be good for your personal finance, as need to spend more money to repair the computer, especially since such technology items are easily outdated and you need to find back the old motherboard in order for other well functioning existing components to fit in.
The problem with most people as I observed is that due to the size and location of the safely remove hardware icon for computers using Microsoft Windows, people have a high tendency to simply pull out their USB devices without stopping the devices. Especially for those using 12 inches, 13 inches and 14 inches laptop with small screen sizes, it is mentally tedious to look for, and then right click to bring out the safely remove hardware window. With higher screen resolutions and many programs icons on the taskbar, it can only get harder to do this step every time when using USB devices.
Follow the steps below with screenshots to create a much bigger icon to be placed on desktop to save time and hence money, since time is money, in removing USB devices.
Creating a desktop icon size remove USB device shortcut,
Step 1,
Right click on your desktop and choose New, and then Shortcut as shown in screenshot below.
Step 2,
Copy and paste the following line of code in bold under Type the location of the item:
RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
After placing the code, click next,
Step 3,
Type a descriptive name for the shortcut like Remove USB, it is recommended to place the newly created shortcut icon on the top right hand corner of your desktop. This is for strategic reason since left side is occupied by other programs icons and bottom right hand corner is occupied by Recycle bin for ease in deleting things.
After finishing typing in the name Remove USB, click Finish.
This icon needs to be placed on the desktop in order for it to work, cannot place in other folders, place it in other folders and the shortcut will not work.
Step 4,
Creating a keyboard shortcut for remove USB, as having the desktop icon shortcut is still not good enough. If you open many windows to do work, a more effective way is to use a keyboard shortcut.
The recommended keyboard combination is Ctrl+F1 for two simple reasons – the close proximity of these two keys allows one left hand to easily press the two keys simultaneously and only two keys are need to press at the same time. If you notice after creating the shortcut, in order to create two keys keyboard shortcuts; you can only use Ctrl plus one function keys like F1, F2, etc.
Alternately, you can use F1, F2 or F3 keys etc, alone without the Ctrl, however take note that F1 is the help menu for many programs, including Microsoft Office. Hence, using two keys like Ctrl+F1 will be wise. In addition, other function keys are commonly used as keyboard shortcuts also.
Right click on the Remove USB icon as shown in screenshot and click on Properties,
Under the shortcut tab as shown in screenshot, use mouse to place cursor there, then press the Ctrl and F1 keys on keyboard at the same time, the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+F1 is created for bringing out the safely remove hardware window. Take note that the keyboard shortcut can only work from the next time that you log in to Windows onwards.
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