re: remove hardware icon Friday, March 17, 2006 at 9:05 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Larry (1327 messages posted) I'd leave it alone. What it does is shut down software and various hardware devices so you can remove them if need be while the computer is still running. If someone were to click on it, that (insert name here) device would be disabled but if not removed from the system it would be re-enabled at the next boot. 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: Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 3:00 pm) 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum