Delete Hardware Icon
Under notification area choose select which icons appear on the taskbar.
Delete hardware icon. I have a machine that i have where the machine is not physically accessible to the end users and hence i would like to remove the safely remove hardware icon from the system tray for non administrators to prevent accidentally unmounting a removable drive because otherwise they would have to restart the machine for the volume to be automatically remounted. Go to the control panel add remove hardware add remove windows components. Look for the safely remove hardware icon on the taskbar. At times the process responsible for displaying the safely remove hardware.
Find safely remove hardware in the list that. Find the safely remove hardware icon and drag it to the taskbar. If you can t find the safely remove hardware icon then right click on the taskbar and select taskbar settings. If you want to remove the device click the safely remove hardware icon in the system tray a.
If you can t find the safely remove hardware icon press and hold or right click the taskbar and select taskbar settings. Disable always hide option. Scroll down a little bit through the list of settings and under the notification area heading click on select which icons appear on the taskbar. Click taskbar on the left side.
By default you should be able to see the safely remove hardware icon in the notification. Safely remove hardware and eject media in the list of displayed icons and put it into active state if it is turned off. How to restore the safely remove hardware tray icon right click the notification area then click customize notifications. Find the notifications area and click on the select which icons appear on the taskbar option.
Then press windows key i and open personalization section. A hotplug device means that you can remove the device any time without switching off the computer. 7 ways to solve safe ly remove hard ware icon miss ing in win dows 10 1. Double click networking services in the list and.