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

By: Mike O

Mike O — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:26:00 +0000

Why can’t I find a solution to this annoying problem cannot remove “safely remove hardware” in system tray vista? It is there everytime I start up my computer. It showing that my Teac memory card slots are in use when in fact there is no card in any slot! Dell 530 w/vista home premium. BTW microsoft lists no solution to this problem either. There has to be some geek out there that knows a fix.
Mike O

By: shin0bi272

shin0bi272 — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:52:00 +0000

you’re an idiot… it just replaces one icon with another! wow what a dumbass.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:15:00 +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 05:34:00 +0000

thanks

By: name

name — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:52:00 +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: bigtugboat

bigtugboat — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:22:00 +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 :)