Vista - USB Safely remove hardware

Is there any way to edit the safely remove hardware list so my flash card
reader will not show up. The card reader is installed to usb port 1 on the
motherboard.

PeteConrad wrote:I've put together some information about this issue:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_..._safely_remove


Uwe

You don't need to get rid of these drives. F,G,H, and I, the removable drives. They are for camera cards like smart media, Compact flash etc. you have a multimedia card reader on your computer with 4 little slots, for the different types of media cards. They don't do anything until you plug something into them. I'm sure they could be removed, but why? They use NO resources until they are in use.


Or If "you" must.

Actually he easiest thing to do would ve to just disable the drives in the device manager,
right click on My Computer, click on Manage, when that window opens up click on Device Manager and then Disk drives. on my system all the card reader "Drives" are called USB Mass Storage Devices. Or What I do is when I boot my computer I "just" right click the Safely Remove Hardware Icon (bottom right) and check the box show all device components and STOP them and it's gone...

If it's just the "icon" in the systray that bothers you (bottom right) here is a small free program that allows you to "hide" that icon and "restore" it when you need it.

IconRemover - freeware tool for complete removal of 'Safely Remove Hardware' Icon

Hope these tips helped..............ART