Comments on: Cannot Safely Remove is so Annoying

By: Stan White

Stan White — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:30:04 +0000

I have the same problem when trying to remove a USB hard drive. I have tracked it down to a Vista program running in the background – wmpnetwk.exe

This is the Windows Media Network Sharing Service.

Open task manager, show processes for all users, and down the bottom, shut down wmpnetwk.exe

Then use “safely remove” quickly, as wmpnetwk.exe will self startup after a few seconds.

Cant see a permanent fix at Microsoft, so it obviously doesn’t happen as far as they are concerned – really????

By: Keilaron

Keilaron — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:20:17 +0000

I’ve noticed that this warning will happen consistently under certain conditions, though I’m not entirely certain which ones, yet.
Either way, another consistency I’ve noticed is that if there really isn’t anything open, the first attempt to eject usually fails, and second attempt to eject almost always succeeds.

By: pam richey

pam richey — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:15:57 +0000

I am maximum frustrated with microsoft! There are messages in my new vista mail box that I CANNOT delete- one is stuck in the send box and I cannot send anything out- no solutions, not from hp – their folks have no options for help without doing a restore to my computer which will erase everything and take hours. Not from the geek squad- they charge for time even if you bought the high dollar warranty for the computer and not from microsoft ” we trained the staff at hp to work on the software- we are not responsible for supporting our software”- even when it has bugs!!! And no service pack available for several months! I am ready to join a class action suit against microsoft- I cannot believe they can send out this software with bugs which take a lot of my money and time to fix- (time is money, you know)- does anyone know of a suit that has been started? Thanks ahead!