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Hey guys, when I made the above referenced reg changes (3 times to be sure I cut and pasted correctly) and tested it out with my 32gb flash drive, I get an error that says "The USB mass storage device (name of device) cannot be stopped or removed" The device stopped normally from the tray icon, but not from the newly created context menu item.

What's up? Am I doing something wrong? The flash drive has PA.c installed with a bunch of diagnostics programs. I'm running W7 32 -SP1.

@ hatryst, I don't understand what you asking me to do. I did the reg mod per the first method. That new context menu pops up the normal SRH dialog box. I select the item to remove (in my case k:\Centon DS Pro). That's when I get the error.

The same SRH dialog box (looks the same anyway) pops up from the tray icon and ejects the device normally.

Any more suggestions?

Yeah, I did that too. Reboot after the reg change as well. The actual error message reads "The 'Centon DS Pro USB Device' device is not removable and cannot be ejected or unplugged"

Same for all of my usb flash drives.

Thanks for your help, but I'll have to pass, bro.

I really don't want to specify the 20 or so flash drives that I own, nor do I really want to install another program.

Thanks again.

If your running win7 you really don't need to use the safe eject. I have several flash drives and am swapping often. Never use the eject feature. No problems, no errors.