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re: remove hardware icon
Friday, March 17, 2006 at 6:21 am
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Posted by Michael (1 messages posted)


To remove that icon from the task list, right-click an empty place on the taskbar (the bar where the start button is) and choose properties. At the bottom of the pop-up box, choose customize and change the remove hardware icon to always hide.


On Friday, March 17, 2006 at 1:45 am, Jen wrote:
>Hello, My husband bought me a windows media pc for Valentines day. we had the geek
>squad do some updates and installs for us. We now have a safely remove hardware icon
>sitting on the task bar , left over from something the geeks did. It leads to all
>of our our removable storage drives. I am unsure what happened but I am fearful one
>of the kids will click it and remove something I need. Any ideas ? Thanks in advance.
>Jen


Written in response to:
remove hardware icon (Jen: Friday, March 17, 2006 at 1:45 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: remove hardware icon (Jen: Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 12:14 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-remove hardware icon (Jen: Fri, Mar 17, 2006, 1:45 am)
-re: remove hardware icon (Michael: Fri, Mar 17, 2006, 6:21 am)
*re: remove hardware icon (Jen: Thu, Mar 23, 2006, 12:14 am)
-re: remove hardware icon (Larry: Fri, Mar 17, 2006, 9:05 am)
-re: remove hardware icon (Jen: Sun, Mar 19, 2006, 3:00 pm)
-re: remove hardware icon (Larry: Mon, Mar 20, 2006, 6:10 am)
*re: remove hardware icon (Jen: Wed, Mar 22, 2006, 11:59 pm)
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