OMG help, annoying little bastard....

[slightlyhuman]

Ok its a wierd question but probaly an easy solution that I dont know. I have been on my wireless setup a few weeks now. and the network card is USB(wireless nic) well You know that little icon in the taskbar that pops up, look like a little green arrow over a white box/piece of paper or something. Well that wont go away. I cant figure out how to get it to go away but still function/work. On my other computer using the same card, same OS,etc, its not there. I dont know what I did if anything to get that to go away. Is there an option I can select to make it go away? LMK if thats enough info



thx

 

[erikistired]

in win2k i opened it up (right click then click on whatever sub menu comes up) and there's a checkbox to show it on the taskbar or not.

 

[slightlyhuman]

Originally posted by: fisher
in win2k i opened it up (right click then click on whatever sub menu comes up) and there's a checkbox to show it on the taskbar or not.

you opened what up? when I right click on it the only menu that comes up is "safe remove hardware" if I click that it disables it.. this is ghey

 

[MangoTBG]

Is it really that annoying just to let it be there? I know what you are talking about, I get it when I plug my Firewire 80GB HDD in. It doesn't bother me, though.

 

[oog]

The icon is there so that you can stop hardware before unplugging it. It is there if you have a PCMCIA device or USB device plugged in. I guess in this case it is your wireless NIC. If you want to get rid of it, you can always right click on a blank area of the task bar, open up properties, and click on the customize button. You have the option of permanently hiding that icon, if you want.

 

[slightlyhuman]

well i want it off there period, I need all thee system memory I can get when I play bf, Im jsut picky and wondering if theres a way to turn it off immediately, thx for the hiding part though...

 

[MangoTBG]

Are you running on 256mb or something? Even if you have 512MB, there's no way that is running more than a single megabyte of memory. I think you may be getting upset for no reason. I don't think it'll hinder your gameplay...maybe 1/1000th of your current FPS.

 

[erikistired]

when i right click my icon it says "unplug or eject hardware" and then i click that. the "unplug or eject hardware" applet comes up, and there's a checkbox for showing the icon on the task bar. once again this is win2k, so it might be different for your OS. not sure which OS you're running tho.