Safely Remove Hardware Tray icon

September 21st, 2002

Is there a way to disable this tray icon? it anoys me that some of my USB devices make it appear, when I have no intention of removing them!

I know I can hide the icon from the startmenu/taskbar/customise but its still there, I want it gone completely!!

dabomb · September 21st, 2002

i currently have it for my usb modem and it really gets on my t!ts

September 21st, 2002

Snap!!

**Hipster Doofus** · September 21st, 2002

So I take it this only happens on some usb devices? I've got three & I don't know what you are talking about. Suppose I should be happy.

September 21st, 2002

I have the same icon, but it's for my printer since I use it through a USB port. The icon only appears from some devices, that need to be stopped, before unplugging. It would probably appear for those, who use a USB hard drive or such. Doesn't show up for my mice though.

**chris** · September 21st, 2002

I got it as well for my USB cable modem, what I do is go to the taskbar properties, then customise hidden icons. just set it to always hide. You'll get the arrow to expand the icons in the system tray but it means you dont have to look at it all the time.

September 21st, 2002	Top \| #1
stuy_b Unregistered Posts: n/a	Safely Remove Hardware Tray icon Is there a way to disable this tray icon? it anoys me that some of my USB devices make it appear, when I have no intention of removing them! I know I can hide the icon from the startmenu/taskbar/customise but its still there, I want it gone completely!!

September 21st, 2002	Top \| #4
Hipster Doofus Good grief Charlie Brown Joined: May 2002 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 5,920 Reputation: 560 Power: 183	So I take it this only happens on some usb devices? I've got three & I don't know what you are talking about. Suppose I should be happy. Pentium 4 2.6ghz 400mhz @ 3.07ghz 472mhz / Gigabyte GA-8IHXP v2.1 / RAMBUS PC 800 768mb / Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256mb / 2 x Maxtor 80gb ATA133 DiamondMax, RAID0 :: 1 x Western Digital 7200 40gb / Liteon DVD-RW Dual Layer SOHW-1633S @ 1653S / Liteon 52x24x52 CD-RW LTR-52246S / Zalman CNPS7000A-Cu Fan / Antec TruePower 480w / RD3XP Gladiator Rounded Cables

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September 21st, 2002	Top \| #2
dabomb OSNN Senior Addict Joined: January 2002 Posts: 564 Reputation: 0 Power: 129	i currently have it for my usb modem and it really gets on my t!ts

September 21st, 2002	Top \| #3
stuy_b Unregistered Posts: n/a	Snap!!

September 21st, 2002	Top \| #5
ZipTriX Unregistered Posts: n/a	I have the same icon, but it's for my printer since I use it through a USB port. The icon only appears from some devices, that need to be stopped, before unplugging. It would probably appear for those, who use a USB hard drive or such. Doesn't show up for my mice though.

September 21st, 2002	Top \| #6
chris Free to Fly Joined: September 2002 Posts: 1,109 Reputation: 50 Power: 126	I got it as well for my USB cable modem, what I do is go to the taskbar properties, then customise hidden icons. just set it to always hide. You'll get the arrow to expand the icons in the system tray but it means you dont have to look at it all the time.