thumdrives under xp

[bigj3347]

If you know that your plugged in thumbdrive is not being accessed or written to. Do you still need to click on the stop deivice on the taskbar first before removing it? I've been doing it out of habit but it gets annoying. Just wondering. Anybody know?

 

[MDE]

I just unplug mine if I know it's not being written to and haven't had a problem yet.

 

[corkyg]

The tray icon for "Safely Removing Hardware" is really not necessary for hot pluggable devices. When you plug in your USB flash memory device, you will shortly hear a dong-ding chime indicating it is seen and connected. When you pull it out, you will hear a ding-dong (reverse) chime indicating it is gone.

This works as well for Firewire devices.

Anyone know how to get rid of that tray icon? I assume it is somewhere in the Registry.

 

[bigj3347]

anyone know how to remove the tray icon? if it unnecesasry, i wanna get rid of it.

 

[Amaroque]

Originally posted by: bigj3347
anyone know how to remove the tray icon? if it unnecesasry, i wanna get rid of it.

You can't remove the icon.

Many people with SATA drives want to get rid of it also, but can't.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm curious why that icon is appearing for USB thumb-drives under XP anyways? If the drive's "write cache policy" is set for "optimize for quick removal" (in other words, write-caching is disabled for the device), then it should be no problem (in terms of device data-integrity) if it is removed, as long as nothing is actively writing to it. (Many USB flash drives have write-activity LEDs on them.) OTOH, any applications that may have the file open (for read), may crash if you yank it out without closing the file. Most apps aren't that brain-dead though.

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: bigj3347
anyone know how to remove the tray icon? if it unnecesasry, i wanna get rid of it.

Right click Taskbar > properties > check Hide inactive icons > Customize > Behavior > always hide