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"safely remove hardware" how to remove icon?

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Aris

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i have this icon in my system tray "safely remove hardware". well when i click on it its talking about my main and only hard drive. partitions C: and E: my hard drive is connected to a SATA port. why is this icon showing up at all? and how do i get it to go away?

also, i have a motherboard with dual gigabit nics onboard. is their any way to make the icon in the system tray that says "Local area connection A network cable is unplugged" go away? i found out how to make the connected one dissapear. but not the empty one.
 
Did you try calling tech support? Something might be wrong with your mobo!

Also try reinstalling drivers

:confused:
 
Aris said:
i have this icon in my system tray "safely remove hardware". well when i click on it its talking about my main and only hard drive. partitions C: and E: my hard drive is connected to a SATA port. why is this icon showing up at all? and how do i get it to go away?
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While I don't know about this personally, the last time this came up a forum member mention that it was because SATA was hotswapable. I'll bet there is an option to disable the message, but I don't have a system handy with SATA in order to take a look.

Edit: in a previous thread, someone mentioned that the behavior was because SATA could be set to be hot swappable. So you'd be looking for either a Windows option to disable the message in general, or disable it only for that device, or a BIOS option to disable SATA from being hot swappable. Note that I'm just repeating what I remember from another thread, I can't verify this is the cause.

Aris said:
also, i have a motherboard with dual gigabit nics onboard. is their any way to make the icon in the system tray that says "Local area connection A network cable is unplugged" go away? i found out how to make the connected one dissapear. but not the empty one.
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Disable the connection.
 
nothings wrong with the mobo. everything works correctly

i just have this stupid icon in my system tray

its just a winxp thing. this gay icon didnt exist in win2kpro

so how do i get rid of these 2 icons in my system tray?
 
[MS] said:
Disable the connection.
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thanks. that fixed that. now i just need to know how to get rid of this safely remove hardware icon and im all set
 
Aris said:
thanks. that fixed that. now i just need to know how to get rid of this safely remove hardware icon and im all set
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the "edit" I just made above might help.
 
I have it also..its for Hot swappable HD's. I dont think there is anyway to get rid of it. I just hide my icons on my toolbar for now.

If anyone knows how to get rid of it, but keep it for the things you need that chime in please.
 
Google and MSN agree.

You can always right click the taskbar, enable "hide inactive icons" for the status tray, and then "customize" it to always hide that one. To hide it for SATA only though, the option would likely have to be in the drivers or changing the BIOS settings for the controller.
 
[MS] said:
Google and MSN agree.

You can always right click the taskbar, enable "hide inactive icons" for the status tray, and then "customize" it to always hide that one. To hide it for SATA only though, the option would likely have to be in the drivers or changing the BIOS settings for the controller.
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Ya i would hate to lose it when i pluged in some USB device or something.
 
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