disappear restore safely remove hardware tray icon windows xp

It's been a long time. This isn't so novel or interesting a fix, but I needed it, and it works great.

Problem is sometimes the remove hardware icon disappears on my old Windows XP, HP DV9000 box. I just don't feel comfortable pulling out usb devices or SD devices without first commanding the OS to manually unmount it.

Here's simple cmd or batch file to relaunch the windows xp hardware removal tray icon.

C> rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

From Tom's Hardware forums.