Solution to Restore Missing or Disappeared Safely Remove Hardware Icon

The manual way of bringing back the Safely Remove Hardware window is by running a command. Go to Start -> Run or press Windows key+R, type in or copy and paste the following line and click OK. The command below IS case sensitive.

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

That will bring up the “Safely Remove Hardware” dialog which you can use to stop the USB device that you want to unplug. When you close the window, this often has the side effect of also restoring the icon back to the tray.