Windows Vista: Safely Remove Hardware fix
When you click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the notification area on a Windows Vista based computer, and then you click Safely remove Device_name, the device may not be removed as expected. Additionally, you do not receive a message that verifies whether the device was safely removed.
Note This problem occurs only when you left-click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the notification area and then click Safely remove Device_name.
This problem occurs because of a timing issue in which allocated memory may be released while the system is removing the selected device. When this behavior occurs, the system can no longer find the information about the selected device. Therefore, the device is not removed.
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I am on a Fujitsu Amilo Pi1505, Vista Home Premium and am having some hassles. Every time you eject a USB flash it drops the Wireless LAN.
If you just pull out your USB flash disk there is no loss of the Wireless Connection. However if you "safely remove" it then Vista drops the Wireless Network at the same time.
My only "Work Around" at the moment is to add a script/bat file to DISABLE / ENABLE the wireless device, or I just pull out the USB flash disk.
:: Script
netsh interface set interface "Wireless Network Connection" DISABLE
netsh interface set interface "Wireless Network Connection" ENABLE
:: EOF
Not sure if there is a way to report this with Microsoft? They seems to want to charge you to get onto any such forum ... or maybe they don't care?