Disable Safely Remove Hardware Icon Group Policy
I have some windows 7 virtual machines in xen that have devices showing up in safely remove hardware.
Disable safely remove hardware icon group policy. Computer configuration windows settings security settings local policies security options evices allowed to format and eject removable media. Power on vm and the safely remove hardware icon is gone. Remove from my forums. You can disable write caching on the removable drive which should allow you to remove the drive without the need to use the safely remove icon.
See this tutorial. Windows offers many options to customize the. Type devices hotplug without the quotations and in the next field type false without quotations. Windows 10 new 27 aug 2016 1.
This method is recommended by vmware and described in there kb1012225. As liquidsnak pointed out you can customize that icon to hide icon and notifications. 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. The easiest way is to download a freeware program called icon remover where you can easily show or remove the safely remove hardware icon with a click of a button.
Windows 7 2003 and 2008 as well. Administrators and power users. Various ways to address the safely remove hardware tray icon issue. And it has a registry based solution for winxp however what i am after is.
Only gives me the ability to select. Disable safely remove hardware icon is there a way to permanently disable that annoying icon. Hide the notification area through gpo. In group policy management i created a new policy and under computer configuration preferences windows settings shortcuts i tried deleting the specific shortcut using both the desktop and all users desktop options.
I m told vmware has a hotplug option. Just add the configuration. A gpo based solution 2. Page 1 of 2 1 2 last.
I ave already gone through how to prevent windows from safely removing hardware. It used to be a shareware that cost 10 for personal license 195 for educational license and 395 for commercial organizations but has turned into a freeware. I don t want users to ever be able to remove eject any hardware at all. Disable safely remove hardware icon.
I can t get it working.