How to get rid of Safely Remove Hardware?

[Dave]

My new dell XP computer ALWAYS has this "Safely Remove
Hardware" thing running in the system tray, because the CD-
rom is a removable device. I never use this function, even
when I take the drive out because really it's a useless
function.

Is there any way to get rid of this ? Permanently ?

I am aware that it can be "hidden" (but then you have the
arrows to indicate more things are running, so it's not
really hidden) and I even found a little program that when
run will make it go away, but after a reboot it is back,
the program only works for that single session.

Anybody know how to access the controls for this thing and
get rid of it??

I just find it really annoying and would love to blast it
away.

 

[Mousey Mick]

That icon is for USB devices and MUST be used to safely
unplug them when Windows is running.

However, I Googled around and found this - use at your own
risk.

http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=123852

Good Luck !

 

[DAve]

Yes that is the program that I mentioned in my original
post.

Note that it works ONLY for that particular session, so
you have to run it every time you start the computer.

I want to know about a way of actually removing this thing
and not just covering it up or having to run a program on
every boot to get rid of it.

As for the MUST use it, I honestly don't believe it at
all, I plug and unplug USB devices, CD-roms, disk drives
constantly with the computer running and nothing has ever
had any problem.

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Dave,

You should use the 'Safely remove hardware' feature to remove USB devices. Not doing so might
corrupt data present on the drives.

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