Re: Gettin Rid of "Safely Remove Hardware" tray Icon
>> "Tevibear" <Tevibear@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:4693E23A.18DEA7DA@yahoo.com...
>> > Anyone know which process I need to disable in MS Config to get rid of
>> > that annoying tray icon that says "Safely Remove Hardware".
>> >
>> > Thx in advace,
> Not sure why it's there. It allows some kind of removing of the hard
> drives and editing of their cache settings if you
> choose properties of the drive. I just don't want it available in case
> someone accidentally get curious and decides to
> jack up one of the hard drives.
>I see your point, however, other people can see it and there are no
>settings
> within this applet that allow it not to load.. maybe I'll do process of
> elimination to find out which one it is and kill it dead. 
> Thx,
> Tevi
Tevi:
Although you haven't indicated this in your posts, I assume you're wondering
why the SRH icon is present even though you do not have a USB removable
device connected to the system, yet the icon displays. Is that right?
If that is so...
It may be because a SATA HDD is installed in your system. Since such a SATA
device has the potential quality of being "hot-pluggable" (or
"hot-swappable"), some systems will treat the device as a removable drive in
terms of reflecting the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the Notification area
(Systray) similar, for example, to a USB external HDD. I'm not aware of any
practical way to disable that icon. (It's been reported that there are
third-party programs that presumably have that capability but I've no
experience with them if they do exist, nor would I recommend their use). I
believe you're aware that there is, however, in XP a "Hide inactive icons"
feature that you may be interested in - see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;279771
In any event, if the above is relevant in your situation, i.e., the SRH icon
displays because of an installed SATA HDD, the (practical) bottom-line in
all this is that you can just ignore the SRH icon; you need not access it in
any way with respect to your SATA HDD(s).
Anna