Safely remove hardware in system tray?

Hi all,

I just upgraded my system with a new motherboard, cpu, video card, ram, and
sata hard drives. Did a clean install of XP Pro

I have a safely remove hardware icon in my systray, which points to my two
internal sata hard drives. Obviously, I am not going to be wanting to stop
these drives and remove them.

Is there a way to prevent that icon from showing up in the systray, without
affecting it showing up for items it should show up for, like external usb
hard drive, camera,etc?

Thanks for any tips,





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Don Burnette

"Don Burnette" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just upgraded my system with a new motherboard, cpu, video card, ram, and
> sata hard drives. Did a clean install of XP Pro
>
> I have a safely remove hardware icon in my systray, which points to my two
> internal sata hard drives. Obviously, I am not going to be wanting to stop
> these drives and remove them.
>
> Is there a way to prevent that icon from showing up in the systray, without
> affecting it showing up for items it should show up for, like external usb
> hard drive, camera,etc?

Unfortunately Microsoft does not provide an easy way to tell Windows
that a device it thinks is removable, actually is not.
There is only one supported way to hide a disk from tray icon:
in disk properties in Device Manager, Policies tab, select "optimize for
quick removal". This will disable write caching

Good luck,
--PA

Pavel A. wrote:
> "Don Burnette" wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just upgraded my system with a new motherboard, cpu, video card,
>> ram, and sata hard drives. Did a clean install of XP Pro
>>
>> I have a safely remove hardware icon in my systray, which points to
>> my two internal sata hard drives. Obviously, I am not going to be
>> wanting to stop these drives and remove them.
>>
>> Is there a way to prevent that icon from showing up in the systray,
>> without affecting it showing up for items it should show up for,
>> like external usb hard drive, camera,etc?
>
> Unfortunately Microsoft does not provide an easy way to tell Windows
> that a device it thinks is removable, actually is not.
> There is only one supported way to hide a disk from tray icon:
> in disk properties in Device Manager, Policies tab, select "optimize
> for quick removal". This will disable write caching
>
> Good luck,
> --PA


Hmm, don't think I would want to do that, but thanks anways.
I read somewhere that it might be a bios issue on this MI K8N Neo4 Platinum
mb, and that a later beta bios fixes that issue. I will wait for it to be a
released official bios and try it then.

Thanks,


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Don