Posted this in WINDOWS and not in hardware cause it's windows's fault...

I have a 4 slot MEDIA card reader. All 4 slots show up as 4 separate "removable disks" all the time. It's really annoying because EVERYONE gets confused about which one is the flash DRIVE they just plugged in. Can I change it so that the reader shows up only when there is actually a card in it? Also, it would be nice to remove it from the safely remove hardware thing since that completely shuts it off until you reboot. Also, if possible, I want to get rid of my USB WiFi dongle from the safely remove hardware list since I only safely remove it by accident all the time when I try to unplug my flash drive..."USB-driveletter-mngr" - available as usbdlm.zip - do a search - wil allow you to turn off visibility on those you don't use or want to see.

It is useful with a reader left in place to label the reader itself for letter sequence which helps with ID of which slot = which drive letter.

You could also if card reader left in - possibly use TweakUI to stop letters showing.

Wouldn't have thought you'd need a reboot to reinstate reader, if it was ''safely removed'' during a session. Your safely remove list tho will I think by default show all USB items active, except a hub which would show in Device manager.