Hello

Is there any possibility to add an element in the dock to "eject usb devices"?

This is one of the biggest problems I have when I hide the taskbar while my Winstep docks are active. Only for this I have two elements in my dock just to unhide and hide the taskbar.

Unfortunately there is no internal command for that.

If it helps a bit, you can replace the two internal commands in the dock for hiding and showing the taskbar with a single toggle IC (Desktop -> Hide/Show Taskbar)

If there was (a literal) one, it wouldn't be a very useable or even useful one. It would eject *all* USB devices at once.

That said, some sort of facility for *selectively* ejecting USB devices would probably be useful.

No, this is not what I want. I would like to see some elements of the right side of the taskbar permanently (like in the standard task bar). But I guess that this is not possible if using your docks.


this would be great.

But I also use e.q. veeam backup program which has an icon at the right side of the taskbar which has right mouse click functions. This I also can not use with active dock's.

Maybe you'd find that great. In reality, it would be a total disaster for many or even most users. I might have between 4 and 8 USB devices connected at the same time, especially when I'm running Windows with 1 or 2 Linux VMs. Now I might want to unmount maybe 1 or 2 drives but need the others still - I certainly could not use that functionality. If I did, I'd have to re-mount and re-decrypt the drives that I needed to keep!

OK, but another good option would be a possibility to eject USB devices like with the windows task bar.

It is possible if you are NOT running Windows 11 24H2. Unfortunately from Windows 11 23H2 onwards Microsoft started changing the the way the systray/notification area works internally and broke all the work I did over the years to have a fully functional (and customizable) systray on the docks.

Under 23H2 you could still access the system tray "overflow" area from the dock, but 24H2 (which I guess is what you are running) seems to have broken it entirely.



Oh, agreed, I was thinking more in terms of an IC to popup the actual Windows 'Safely Remove Hardware' dialog. From there the user could select which drive to eject.

Ah yes, that would be perfectly workable. In any event, I don't imagine for one moment that all devices actually could all be ejected literally at once - at best, they'd be processed in sequence.

Oh for the joys of Win 11 - not! Total rot. Can you imagine what kind of a horror story Win 12 is going to be? (If they ever get there...)