Hide the Safely Remove Hardware Icon from System Tray

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From the computer of: mikejc (41 recipes)
Created: Aug 24, 2004

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Recipe that explains how to hide an unwanted icon from the system tray.

If you have an USB device attached to your system, you will notice an icon in the Notification area, which - when clicked - will give you the option to Stop your hardware, before you unplug it.
It is possible that you never unplug this hardware. So how do you get rid of the icon?

As far as I know the only way is to right-click the notification area, and selecting Properties. Under the Notification area heading, click Customize. Find the Safely Remove Hardware icon and select Always hide in the Behavior column next to it (press OK and Apply to back out).