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re: remove hardware icon Friday, March 17, 2006 at 6:21 am 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: remove hardware icon Friday, March 17, 2006 at 9:05 am Posted by Larry (1364 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: remove hardware icon Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 3:00 pm Posted by Jen (22 messages posted) My fear would be that I would not have the proper software required to reinstall. They no longer give you much software with a new PC. Most of it is preinstalled. We do have a recovery drive which is suppose to cover that if something were to happen. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: remove hardware icon Monday, March 20, 2006 at 6:10 am Posted by Larry (1364 messages posted) No software will be removed, it only shuts down hardware and any associated drivers so that hardware can be safely removed from a running system, more to PROTECT the software than the hardware actually. For example, I have a laptop that I use with a wireless adapter plugged into one of the PCMCIA expansion slots on the side. If I need to remove it without shutting the system down, I simply click the remove device icon and in a few seconds it tells me it's now safe to remove it. When I plug the adapter back in and power up again, Windows detects it and everything works just as before. No drivers or other software is "lost". I can even plug the card into the machine while it's powered up and Windows will detect it and start it up. On Sunday, March 19, 2006 at 3:00 pm, Jen wrote: >My fear would be that I would not have the proper software required to reinstall. >They no longer give you much software with a new PC. Most of it is preinstalled. >We do have a recovery drive which is suppose to cover that if something were to happen. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: remove hardware icon Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 11:59 pm Posted by Jen (22 messages posted) Thank you , That makes so much sense. I now understand why it is there. On this pc I have two removable usb drive sockets , where you can plug in and out a storage drive. I have not had a need for one yet but now I realize what the hardware icon got put on the task bar for. It bugs when I don't know why something is there. Thanks for cleaning that up , I love this site :0) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: remove hardware icon Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 12:14 am Posted by Jen (22 messages posted) LOL , I am so weird that it bugs me knowing it is there even if it is hidden and I did not personally tell it to be there. It bugs me having all my virus prevention programs on there even though, I know I need them to be .. I need PC therapy ;0) [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum