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I have a Toshiba labtop and I recently installed a D-Link Ethernet cardbus adapter. Now I have an annoying "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in my System tray. I have it hidden, but I still want to get rid of it. I've read that there is suppose to be an option for removing the icon underneath 'properties' but I don't have that option.
I've searched a *long* time for this same issue. Windows 2000 lets you remove the icon; however, Windows XP does not. (The XP Control panel contains Add Hardware while the corresponding 2000 entry is Add or Remove Hardware--so the icon in XP is "necessary.")
I'd be happy to be proven wrong!
You can run third-party software that creates an icon to hide your other tray icons.... or you can remove the device (or disable it via Device Manager)....
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Belou,
Slug is correct, Safely Remove Hardware icon is put there by the plug and play service. If it's there, that means you have plug and play hardware operating. If you ever remove that hardware, you should click the icon and choose to shutdown the hardware first. It's a good insurance policy against your BIOS shutting down your computer if something happens that it doesn't like. Microsoft made the icon IMPOSSIBLE TO REMOVE for a reason. You CAN HIDE IT THOUGH using the Customize Notification feature, which you should be happy with.
<right click> on the task bar and choose "Properties".
On the Taskbar tab, under Notification area, select the Hide inactive icons check box.
Click Customize.
In the Name column, click the notification you want to change, in the Behavior column, click the behavior you want in the list, and then click OK.
On the Taskbar tab, click Apply.
Hope that helps,
wired
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Wired, I believe that Belou said he/she had already hidden the icon. I personally dislike the "Customize Notification" hiding method. I want to know exactly what is in my system tray--even though I nomrally have only two other icons :-)
Incidentally, the icon appears on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop for my "Secondary IDE Channel." This is quite useless for me as I *never* hot swap my CD drive with a floppy or secondary battery.
<rant>
My top 3 XP pet peeves:
1. Files copied to the desktop are diagonally aligned
2. A folder cannot be deleted right away because it is "in use" by explorer.exe
3. The "Safely Remove Hardware" Icon is present
</rant>
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