You can hit the applications key or right click on the top level of your flash drive in the folder tree of windows explorer. There's an eject item in that menu. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brendon Donohue" <[email protected]> To: "'Tom Kingston'" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2014 8:41 PM Subject: RE: Getting the Desktop out of My alt-tab Cycle
> Tom, > > USB hard drives don't have a safely remove hardware option in the computer > under Windows 7. I would go to the start menu icon, press ALT+Enter, press > control+Tab until you have reached the taskbar page and tab until you find > the button called notification area Customize... Button. Press enter on that > and find the checkbox that will be unchecked called Always show all icons > and notifications on the taskbar, shift+Tab will get you to it the quickest. > Check it by pressing the space bar. Then press OK twice and all of your > system tray icons will stay there. > > Thank you. > > Brendon Donohue. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Kingston [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, 4 May 2014 7:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Getting the Desktop out of My alt-tab Cycle > > The desktop being in the tab order is a result of the Windows theme > you're using. Go into the Windows Control panel, personalization, and I > think it's the Windows Basic theme you want. I'm not sure because I > created a customized theme ages ago and forget which one it was based > on. But I think that's it. > > Regarding safely remove hardware? From the desktop open Computer. Any > USB drive or device that acts as a drive will be in the drive list. > Select it, open the context menu with the Application key or Shift-F10, > and hit J for Eject. You should hear: Safe to remove hardware. > > Hth, > Tom > > > On 5/3/2014 4:36 PM, Evan Reese wrote: >> Hey guys, >> I'm a new user of Windows 7 and I'd like to know if, and how, I can get >> the desktop from appearing when I alt-tab through my open applications. >> I believe I had this same question with Vista, but that was long ago and >> I don't know what I was told to do to get it out then. >> Thanks much. >> Also, by the way, is there a Safely Remove Hardware in Windows 7? I used >> to have to do that with Vista when unplugging an external hard drive or >> one of my SD cards, but I can't find it on the system tray on my new >> Windows 7 machine. Is it unnecessary now, or is it located somewhere else? >> Thanks very much. >> Evan > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
