I have an icon for safely remove hardware in my system tray. Only option it has is for removing my external wireless network crd, and i could care less. Not sure how it got there, and dont see any way to get rid of it. Could use some tips on removing it please, thanks.
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How to remove certian icon from system tray
- Thread starter Stiletto
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- Sep 26, 2002
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- Indianapolis, IN
double click on it and it will pop up the unplug or eject hardware screen. there should be a box at the bottom that says "show unplug/eject icon on the taskbar". just uncheck it and you should be all good.
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- Sep 26, 2002
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- Indianapolis, IN
Stiletto said:
what os is it? winxp?
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hmm... well xp is different than win2k then. i was looking at my laptop running win2k and it looks like this:
i will find the answer
*edit: as far as i can tell, microsoft removed the ability to get rid of the icon as a safety precaution for your hardware. they say it can be damaged if you don't stop a device before removing it... i am still looking though*
i will find the answer
*edit: as far as i can tell, microsoft removed the ability to get rid of the icon as a safety precaution for your hardware. they say it can be damaged if you don't stop a device before removing it... i am still looking though*
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