Anyone know what this?

[The PIT]

Suddenly in my systray in win2k an icon called Display removeable
storage requests has appeared. What is it and how do I remove it.
It ain't in the startup folder.

[Alec]

You mean THIS on my desktop and system tray?
In my case it refers to my USB CD-RW. W2K must be misdetecting some USB device or expansion card you have in your machine.

[The PIT]

No it didn't look like that anyway it's now disappeared again.

[Tempest]

Ehm... Did you try messing with the icon (clicking, double-clicking it)?
I recall having something like that when my DVD-drive broke down. Sometimes the drive initialized and sometimes it didn't, sometimes it "left the building" when Win2K was running -> there was some sort of removable storage icon displayed on the taskbar, probably 'cause Win2K thought that as it had suddenly vanished it must be a removable drive...

[The PIT]

I did click on it so I could have some clue of it's orgin. Like having a look at the help and about but there wasn't a help button. All the Cd drives were working as was the floppy and I don't have a zip drive. Next time I'll do a print screen and post the pic but I was in a hurry had to go out.
At the moment I'm blaming Creative as I had just updated the sblive software and was wondering whether it was to do with the Creative Cd player software.

[VJ]

The icon is the same as the one displayed in the hardware profile manager (control panel | system | hardware, bottom icon).

I sometimes get this message as well, often when my computer boots with no zip drive attached (when this zipdrive was attached previously), yet sometimes I also get this message with the zip attached (in the latter case, the zipdrive does not work, and I have to reboot !).

The proper use for this tool is when working with hot swappable devices (e.g. with laptops computers). I don't know why it is displayed in my case (powering down the zip while windows is running does not cause this). Personally, I think it is some small glitch in Windows, supposed to go off if certain hardware has changed (drives, PCMCIA cards), but being activated without proper cause.


Jörg

[VJ]

I forgot to mention : the hotswappable devices need to be stopped before they are removed; the os might otherwise become confused when the hardware is no longer present...

[VJ]

Oh, still forgot : I think right clicking it provides to possibility to turn it of....