Windows will issue at least one warning if you will remove a PCMCIA card from its socket without stopping it first.

You can disable this behavior by editing a registry value.

Start the Registry editor by typing regedit.exe in a Run.. window, then go to the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\ SysTray

Double click on the PCMCIAFlags entry or create a new DWORD value with this name and set the new value to 0 (1 enables the warnings). From this point, you should no longer receive any warnings when devices are removed without stopping them first.

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