Sorry JRosenfeld I didn't see you there when I began typing.

Pamela

You can't remove it, but if you are not often removing hardware (e.g. USB or firewire connected devices), you can hide it. Right click start, click properties, taskbar tab, click hide inactive icons, click customize, right click on the icon and select always hide to hide it permanently. Click Apply, etc.

Right-click the notification area, left  click Properties. Under Notification heading, click Customize. Find the Safely Remove Hardware icon and select Always hide in the Behavior column next to it . Press OK and Apply.

Pamela

Thanks guys!....had a little brain freeze for a minute  My daughters laptop had the taskbar on the right side of the screen and although I knew you could do this I had never tried and it freaked me out. Then I noticed she had a ton of Icons in the Notification area.

Message Edited by purrplexed on 11-15-2003 09:09 PM