How do I remove the "Safely Remove Hardware" Icon?

Freeman · 23 Jan 2006 at 19:25

No biggy really but it's an icon that i never use and want to remove from my icon on the bottom right of my start bar. I like to keep things as clean as possible.

I have found no boxes to untick and generally no place to remove this icon.

Does anyone know how i can do this please? And if it's not possible, oh well eh, will just have to live with it!

Cheers

zobby · 23 Jan 2006 at 20:47

If you right click on the start button, choose properties, then taskbar - you can hide inactive icons - is that what you're after?

Freeman · 23 Jan 2006 at 20:50

zobby said:
If you right click on the start button, choose properties, then taskbar - you can hide inactive icons - is that what you're after?

Hmm not really as then it hides other icons i don't want hidden >.<

Thanks anyways.

HangTime · 23 Jan 2006 at 20:50

Yeah go into that option, but instead of clicking hide inactive icons, click customise and set the "safely remove hardware" item to "always hide"

Craig321 · 23 Jan 2006 at 21:51

HangTime said:
Yeah go into that option, but instead of clicking hide inactive icons, click customise and set the "safely remove hardware" item to "always hide"

You have to click hide inactive icons to enable the customise button >.<

BittersweetLife · 24 Jan 2006 at 12:40

HangTime said:
Yeah go into that option, but instead of clicking hide inactive icons, click customise and set the "safely remove hardware" item to "always hide"

Thats no good as you then get the annoying << icon which means you have only gained a tiny amount of space on the taskbar

Their is a shareware program that removes it, we need some clever dude to reverse it and see what it does

http://www.safelyremove.com/

jhmaeng · 24 Jan 2006 at 12:58

If I remember correctly, there is something to do with caching and delayed-write that you have to disable in order to avoid getting the Safely Remove button when plugging in external storage devices.