Safely remove hardware

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April 22, 2005 at 1:36 am #17997

DrBroccoli
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I just installed a new multifunction printer with a card reader and even if the printer is off I get the safely remove hardware in the taskbar, if I hit stop will it make it go away?

April 22, 2005 at 8:20 am #120008

MartinBradley
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This may help, but I have a feeling that it’s more of a workaround than a solution. Let me know 🙂

April 22, 2005 at 1:38 pm #120009

DrBroccoli
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I had already did that… then I contacted my printer company and they told me the same thing!

April 22, 2005 at 4:39 pm #120007

EEDOK
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just wear a condom and don’t worry about it.. It’s only trying to protect your data.

April 22, 2005 at 5:08 pm #120005

Sathallrin
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This is the best way I have found to remove that Icon.
http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak123852.aspx

You can set that program into your run at startup..so it hides it on each boot.

April 22, 2005 at 5:09 pm #120006

DJHyperbyte
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EEDOK wrote:

just wear a condom and don’t worry about it..You are so funny. :crying:

April 23, 2005 at 2:42 pm #120010

DrBroccoli
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I read the TweakXP guide, but I don’t understand this part,

TweakXP wrote:

To restore the icon after running the program, you will have to reset your session, kill explorer.exe or reboot : use with c
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