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| | Can't they provide an option to remove "Safely Remove Hardware"? Recently, more and more people become to use SATAII hard disks which are permanently attached to their systems, and I'm one of them. For Windows Vista, I expected some improvements but the "Safely Remove Hardware" is just the same as that of Windows XP. I never need to open the "Safely Remove Hardware" but I sometimes accidentally double click on it when I actually wanted to double click another icon. Then for about 5 seconds the mouse cursor for the desktop shows the 'hourglass'. Probably somebody might answer, go to the properties of the taskbar and choose always hide, but that results in an unwanted expansion (<) button. I've even found that somebody is selling a program to hide this "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. If Microsoft just add a simple option "Hide icon", then we don't have to waste our money to buy such a program. Network icon, Volume icon and even the clock are all hidable and why isn't it? Can't Microsoft add the option to hide it or at least an option not to notify for permanently attached SATA II disks (that actually can never be safely removed) such as C? |
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| | RE: Can't they provide an option to remove "Safely Remove Hardware"? How is the disk attached to the system? It sounds like it is using a usb to sata adapter. If so this is why the safely remove icon exists. On my system I run an SATA II drive that is connected directly to the motherboard controller and I do not have a safely remove icon for it. I do have one for my USB drives though and if I recall right there was one for the usb to sata adapter I used for a short time. (I removed it after 2 days since it was causing hardware conflicts) "Cat" wrote: > Recently, more and more people become to use SATAII hard disks which > are permanently attached to their systems, and I'm one of them. For > Windows Vista, I expected some improvements but the "Safely Remove > Hardware" is just the same as that of Windows XP. I never need to open > the "Safely Remove Hardware" but I sometimes accidentally double click > on it when I actually wanted to double click another icon. Then for > about 5 seconds the mouse cursor for the desktop shows the > 'hourglass'. > > Probably somebody might answer, go to the properties of the taskbar > and choose always hide, but that results in an unwanted expansion (<) > button. I've even found that somebody is selling a program to hide > this "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. If Microsoft just add a simple > option "Hide icon", then we don't have to waste our money to buy such > a program. Network icon, Volume icon and even the clock are all > hidable and why isn't it? > > Can't Microsoft add the option to hide it or at least an option not to > notify for permanently attached SATA II disks (that actually can never > be safely removed) such as C? > > |
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| | Re: Can't they provide an option to remove "Safely Remove Hardware"? No, my disk is not connected through a usb adapter. It is directly connected to a SATA port on the motherboard. I heard that if you connect an SATA II disk using AHCI mode (which is the native mode of SATA disks), Windows shows Safely Remove Hardware icon, because AHCI supports removal of disks while the system is running (called 'Hot swap'). But as I already wrote, a disk with the system drive (C) , cannot be removed while Windows is running. That's why I said Windows should not show the icon for the system disk. On Feb 15, 10:14 am, RickH <R...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > How is the disk attached to the system? It sounds like it is using a usb to > sata adapter. If so this is why the safely remove icon exists. On my system I > run an SATA II drive that is connected directly to the motherboard controller > and I do not have a safely remove icon for it. I do have one for my USB > drives though and if I recall right there was one for the usb to sata adapter > I used for a short time. (I removed it after 2 days since it was causing > hardware conflicts) > > "Cat" wrote: > > Recently, more and more people become to use SATAII hard disks which > > are permanently attached to their systems, and I'm one of them. For > > Windows Vista, I expected some improvements but the "Safely Remove > > Hardware" is just the same as that of Windows XP. I never need to open > > the "Safely Remove Hardware" but I sometimes accidentally double click > > on it when I actually wanted to double click another icon. Then for > > about 5 seconds the mouse cursor for the desktop shows the > > 'hourglass'. > > > Probably somebody might answer, go to the properties of the taskbar > > and choose always hide, but that results in an unwanted expansion (<) > > button. I've even found that somebody is selling a program to hide > > this "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. If Microsoft just add a simple > > option "Hide icon", then we don't have to waste our money to buy such > > a program. Network icon, Volume icon and even the clock are all > > hidable and why isn't it? > > > Can't Microsoft add the option to hide it or at least an option not to > > notify for permanently attached SATA II disks (that actually can never > > be safely removed) such as C? |
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