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Like any normal human being with a computer, you probably use your USB jacks, and according to OS market-share statistics, you’re machine is probably some flavor of Windows. So you’re probably familiar with having to click that annoying tiny icon to bring up the SRH (Safely Remove Hardware) dialog box when you need to disconnect a USB device, but it’s possible to make the disconnect process a little easier.

In order to create a shortcut/hotkey combo to pull up the SRH box, right click anywhere on the desktop and go to “New” then “Shortcut”. Paste the text below into the box asking you, “what item you would like to create a shortcut for?”

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

That shortcut will open the SRH box. At this point, you can place the shortcut anywhere — including the quick-launch bar.

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