Comments on: Hide the Safely Remove Hardware Icon from System Tray

By: robciaschini

robciaschini — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:15:17 +0000

My problem is that the USB icon with green check mark tells me to safely unplug hardware. The hardware is the C: and D: recovery drive. Dell told me that it is a software issue that needs registry maintenance (not covered by their hardware warranty).
Also, if you look in device manager and find “SCSI disk drive”, one can see the properties. Open properties and go under the tab called “policies”. A performance enhancer called “write caching” is enabled. This is the reason for the icon. There is an option to unselect it but I was told to leave it alone.

By: , mike

, mike — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:34:07 +0000

thanks

By: name

name — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:52:51 +0000

this doesn't actually remove the icon, it simply hides it. the icon still stays in the systray and takes up memory resources.

By: POed

POed — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:14:29 +0000

A worthless comment. Does absolutely no good Bubba.

By: bigtugboat

bigtugboat — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:22:28 +0000

Thanks a lot for this recipe :) I just wanted to remove that particular icon from the system tray because my four-year old would click it and then disconnect the modem. I googled for the solution, landed at your blog, learnt how to do the thing and am relieved to see the icon gone :)
Just wanted to say thanks for the guiide lines :)

By: cozofdeath

cozofdeath — Tue, 16 May 2006 06:32:19 +0000

This allows you to remove and do some other useful things in a batch file or script. I’m sure their are other more useful tools with a GUI.

By: AMCDeathKnight

AMCDeathKnight — Tue, 16 May 2006 01:14:59 +0000

Is there away to run a file and eject all removeable drives on the computer? I hate having to remove my ipod etc one after the other.

By: cozofdeath

cozofdeath — Mon, 15 May 2006 18:24:26 +0000

I have the same thing happining, which it should happen because satas are plug n play, but I have no clue on how to get that icon off just for the sata drive and not effecting anything else. The only thing I could find is a program that supposedly allows you to do what your talking about but no manual methods like editing a file or registry key.

http://www.safelyremove.com/

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Sun, 14 May 2006 15:17:08 +0000

Little different angle on this question, but has anyone had a problem with this icon showing up in their system tray after they installed a SATA drive, my boot drive no less but its there and I don't know if its some software I didn't get to install (got it as an OEM drive from newegg) I kinda like it being there when my jump drive is plugged in, but my boot drive is always gonna be there. I have the same strange behavior. I have a SATA drive set up, no usb devices have ever been plugged in, and I get the 'Safely remove hardware' icon appearing allowing me to remove my primary hard drive. Not quite right, how to I fix that?

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Tue, 09 May 2006 18:21:01 +0000

Little different angle on this question, but has anyone had a problem with this icon showing up in their system tray after they installed a SATA drive, my boot drive no less :? but its there and I don’t know if its some software I didn’t get to install (got it as an OEM drive from newegg) I kinda like it being there when my jump drive is plugged in, but my boot drive is always gonna be there. :roll:

GigaByte K8NS Pro – Socket 754
HDD is a Western Digital Raptor 74gig on the SATA 1 plug of the MoBo, has two SATA busses, one RAID (SATA 0/01 SII), one I plugged in on is non RAID (SATA 0/1) All drivers loaded and recognized by XP PRO SP2 as far as I know (no yellow ? or ! in the Device Manager)

Sorry this was such a long post, but I wanted to be thorough.

T.I.A.