Remove the safely remove hardware icon from the task bar

[Tungesh]

Hi friends,

I am using Windows XP SP3 as my operating system with SATA Seagate Hard Drive and everything is working very good but whenever i am using my Seagate hard drive i am getting an safely remove hardware icon in my task bar which i don't wanna have it. Is there any way of removing safely remove hardware icon from task bar. Thanks in Advance.

[aneesh]

If you really wan to remove safely remove hardware icon from the task bar then you need to right Click on the task bar in Windows XP. Then go to properties and check out the option which says “Hide inactive icons” and go to customize.Now find safely remove hardware and in the behavior category select hide when inactive or always show.

[Francesca]

There is one more way of removing safely remove hardware icon from the task bar is to click on Start, Run and type RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll and press OK, now you will get Safely Remove Hardware dialog box. Now click on the device you want to remove, and press Stop. Now right click on your desktop, click on New, and then click on Shortcut. In the resulting dialog box enter that "RunDLL32" command listed above.That will bring up the "Safely Remove Hardware" dialog. Click on Next and change the name to "Safely Remove Hardware". Whenever you need to remove hardware, and the icon isn't present on the taskbar notification area. You can simply double click on this new shortcut and get the job done.