This icon suddenly isn't showing up, so I have to shut down or risk damaging something to get my external USB devices disconnected from the system.Is there a place in XP Pro that I can enable it?
View 3 RepliesWhen I plug in a USB memory stick, my camera or an external hard drive, I get no tray icon (green arrow): the first two items I can 'eject' but I don't even get that option for the hard drive. However, when I loaded software and downloaded pictures from a phone for a friend, the icon and removal option appeared.
View 5 Replies View RelatedTwo AVG icons were in the tray - the normal one and one that said it was scanning - which was constant. I searched and found an answer to someone else's problem which was to exit the "normal" one and both would disappear. They did but the AVG icon is completely gone from the tray. I thought it would re-appear on its own.I can run it from the desktop icon but I'd like it back in the tray.
View 4 Replies View Relatedmy safely remove icon has gone from my task bar, cant find it ...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI got a pc in this the USB SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE ICON keep appearing in the task bar. I want to unload it! When I boot up the pc it tells me it is not compatable with this system anyway - so WHY IS IT LOADING? I didn't choose for it to be there? THought you could hot swap anyway with XP usbs. Anyway In Win2K you could choose to not load this. Can't find in XP how to get rid of this! any help?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy computer with Win XP does not always have the safely remove hardware icon that comes up in the taskbar. I put a USB flashdrive in, and the icon came up. When I was through it was gone. I had no idea how to find it so I just unplugged the flashdrive. Is there a way I can make that Icon stay. It is not because it is a hidden icon.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have this little icon (green) in the lower right corner of my screen next to norton. Cant seem to get rid of it, something about USB Mass Storage device???? When I check device manager all seems well. Have tried rebooting, removing mass storage device etc.
View 11 Replies View RelatedHow do I get rid of this? Keeps telling me that USB Mass Storage Device can safely be removed from my system?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI desperately need to remove the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon.I can't stand having a cluttered desktop. I know that this has been discussed here several times, but I have yet to find a solution. I'm using an ancient Dell 3500 notebook with XP Pro. I've had an old 3com Ethernet PC Card for years, and I wanted to use it in XP. As I'm sure you all know, it puts that annoying icon in the system tray. In Windows 2000,they had a way to make it so that the icon was not required to be displayed, but I haven't found a similar option in XP. Is there something I'm missing here, or does anyone know of a third-party app, or anything like that? Also, I know that you can hide inactive icons,but the ">>" thing that shows the condensed tray takes up just a much space as keeping it as-is.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe "safe to remove hardware" icon is missing from the task tray. When a USB device (flash drive) is plugged in there is no way to safely unplug it. I have tried run>RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll> and sometime this will allow me to safely unplug a device, but not always. HP suggest reformatting the hd, but I prefer not to do this. Any suggestions?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am running Windows XP Professional with SP2. Windows Firewall is installed, as is, the excellent, Nod32 Antivirus.
I lost the Safely Remove Hardware icon and also the Volume Control icon from the Notification area of the System Tray. I do not recollect why or how this came about.
I realized that the SRH icon can be made to show up in the System Tray by:
Click on Start/Control Panel/Sounds and Audio Devices and placing a check mark in the
'Place volume icon on the task bar' check box.
This immeditely places the two icons referred to above in the System Tray.....
I could not find the key in the registry that controls the initialization bar so I could turn on again the icon that controls all the USB devices.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSometimes the icon is missing in the system tray.
I can get it back but next boot it's missing again.
On occasion it does show but not often.
Any ideas on why this happens and how to get it to shoe all the time?
I have installed via a USB socket on my computer a Belkin-branded Wireless USB adapater. This device, although removable, will not be removed regularly from the computer and so I would like the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon to not be displayed because of it, as it currently is. The option to hide the icon via the Taskbar properties is not the fix I am looking for, either.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a DELL 8100 with WIN XP Pro installed.Recently the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the sys-tray has disappeared. How can I retrieve it and, in the meantime, can I safely disconnect USB equipt. without first shutting down?
View 5 Replies View RelatedAfter using my USB memory stick this evening, I went to the taskbar to click the "safely remove hardware" icon, only to find it was not there. I restarted the computer (my catch-all trouble shooting method) and still did not get an icon when I inserted the USB drive. I also tried plugging in my iPod and got no icon. (Note: the flash drive and iPod function perfectly fine, it's just the "safely remove hardware' icon that's missing - annoying) Did I inadvertantly change some sort of settings. The computer is an HP PCm7250n running XP mediacenter edition, the flash drive in question is a SanDisk cruzer micro.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhy has it dissapeared? How can I restore it, so it comes back each time I insert a USB device?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn my taskbar I have the "safely remove hardware icon" all the time. When I double click on it and click stop it shows four devices; TEAC USB Hs-Sd Card USB Device (Drive H) TEAC USB Hs-Ms Card USB Device (Drive G) TEAC USB Hs-xD/SM Card USB Device (Drive F) TEAC USB Hs-CF Card USB Device (Drive E) Nothing is even connected to the drives, so why am I getting the icon? And how can I stop it from displaying these drives?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI would like to remove an icon or two from the tray. any suggestion?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhat are all these extra drives doing on my computer? I don't recognize them. I'm certain I didn't plug any extra drives into my computer. And I also want to get rid of these drives so the Safely Remove Hardware icon won't appear anymore
View 8 Replies View RelatedI installed the software for a HP DeskJet 5940 photo printer that I purchased. Afterwards, a "Safely remove hardware" icon appeared in the taskbar. None of the startup entries for the new printer are running in the background, so I don't know how to get rid of it.
1. Right-click within the notification area, and then click Properties.
2. On the Taskbar tab, click Customize.
3. Select Safely remove hardware, and in the Behavior column, click Always hide.
Can I remove a program's tray icon ( the one that appears near the volume icon in the taskbar ) without removing the program nor closing it? I want to totally remove the tray icon from near the volume one in the taskbar, so that it would not appear while the program is running. I don't want to hide it, but to totally REMOVE it from the system tray, Can I? Can I edit the registry for doing that or something else?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI want to know how to remove previously installed tray icon thingys like these . I dont have some of these things installed anymore ?
View 6 Replies View Relatedi had attached a snapshot of the icons in my icon tray..pass few days back i found this "X" icon in my tray and i cant remove it and also it doesnt display anything..
View 5 Replies View Relatedon my computer I have had a "safely remove hardware" icon in the task tray that I cannot remove or get to operate successfully.
the problem is that whenever I've attempted to "stop" the hardware I always get a message saying, "The ****device cannot be stopped now. Try stopping the device again later. The device is described as "generic volume", with what appears to be some form of identification number.
please tell me whats this how I can remove it and the icon from the taskbar
P.S. - I've newly learned that this "device" with it's icon in the system tray is the hard drive (by comparing the associated ID # indicated in the "properties" window with the hard drive # in the device manager window). I certainly don't want to remove the hard drive, but does anyone know why an icon for this device would appear in the taskbar, or know how to remove the icon only?
I have a list of Windows XP Hotfix in my ADD/REMOVE section, can I remove these safely without corrupting my system?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to place an icon under the System tray. the program was installed already and i want to get a particular option only under the system tray.For Example : I'm having the Norton System Works 2005 on my Machine. and there is an option called Live Update in that program, i need to have the Live Update icon under the sytem Tray. So, that i can easily run the Live Update with out open the program . (In that program itself the Live Update is able to run with out opening the Norton Program) so, how come i place an icon under the System Tray.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI now have this flashing icon in my system tray ; when you click on it it brings you to a site called Anti-Vermins.com.
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen I booted up this morning,I noticed a new icon in the system tray,it looks like 2 computer monitors with a small bar flashing between them. I clicked on it and it said aquiring network connection,I cannot understand this as I was already on the net having a broadband connection.
View 9 Replies View RelatedConnection icon in System Tray, sometimes it shows, other times not. Have checked connection Properties and "Show icon in notification area" is checked.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a windowsxp operating system.Last week I noticed the volume icon missing in the system Tray as well as all other icons.The only one left is Norton icon.When I open the task bar and go into customize notifications all the icons are either folders or icons.Example volume has the picture of a folder.Norton has a lexmark icon.Lexmark has a folder icon.Real message center has a volume icon.I have been trying all week to remedy this problem.Ran Norton and Adware.Nothing.Has anyone in the forum run into this problem before and if so how did you fix it.
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