Hello, as some of you may know, I have bought a new laptop recently.

Since the Windows 11 update on 22/10/25, I'm having some trouble with it, when I click on 'Safely Remove Hardware', an option has appeared to eject my dedicated graphics card (Nvidia).

I'm worried I might click on this by accident (just for context I use a laptop all day at work, and often click on 'cut' instead of 'copy' by mistake etc.), I'm just a clumsy person (always tripping over, spilling things etc.).

It might not be so bad normally, except I do now need to use USB sticks a lot to sort my Sims 2 stuff out.

Googling is driving me round the bend, I keep running into trolls, memes, AI nonsense, advice which is years out of date, advice that only works on certain brands of laptop, etc. I must have literally spent about 6 hours last night looking stuff up, nothing I tried worked, then I couldn't sleep, I felt like I was losing my mind!

I registered on the Nvidia forum and posted there, but only got one reply which was very vague.

My laptop was made by PC Specialist, so I am not sure whether to try the forums on there, or contact technical support directly?

Or would a Windows 11 forum be better (opinions seem to vary on whether this is a Nvidia bug or a Windows bug), and if so, does anyone know a good one please?

It seems to be a Windows bug.
https://windowsforum.com/threads/wi...plained.373744/

I'd try disabling hotplug PCIe in your BIOs if that setting is there:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/stop...-eject-the-gpu/

Otherwise try the registry mod, but obviously risky!

@simsample Thanks, that's really helpful

I've probably picked the wrong day (it's Update Tuesday apparently), I've been letting the new laptop do Windows updates whilst I use another one, but it's doing loads of them, and I probably need to go to sleep soon.

I've posted in the Nvidia forum again, and the PC Specialist forum, but will try the BIOS fix tomorrow, and try the Windows forum if that doesn't work.

I confess I tried the registry fix first last night, as I get a bit scared of going into BIOS (I made a registry backup first, using CCleaner).

The registry entries did seem to add ok, but they just didn't fix the problem. I'm not sure whether to undo them first before trying the BIOS fix?

The BIOS is just a switch setting- on or off- so easy to test without undoing the registry changes. Quick, but might take a bit of time to find the setting you need at first. I'm thinking there must be some group policy settings for this, but from what I'm reading on sysadmin forums, it seems like it doesn't work either.