Thta's been set like that since I installed the drive. I just want the icon
to go away.

James

"R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> wrote in message
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> Hi, James.
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>> after purchasing an external hard drive I can't get the
>> 'Safely remove hardware' icon to go away (Not just hide it).[/color]
>
> You can stop that icon from bugging you pretty easily. Run Disk
> Management (diskmgmt.msc). Right-click on that Disk in the left-most
> column of the Graphical View. Choose Properties, and on the Policies tab,
> make sure to choose to Optimize for Quick Removal, rather than for Best
> Performance. Note that Quick Removal is the default, but your external HDD
> installer might have changed it.
>
> Then, any Writes to that external hard drive will be written to the disk
> immediately, rather than transferred first to a cache and written to the
> HD later. Thus, you can just "pull the plug" at almost any time without
> danger of losing data in the cache that has not yet been written to the
> HD.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> [email]rc@grandecom.net[/email]
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 RC 7100
>
> "JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message
> news:eo981nO#JHA.4176@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> No. I'm real particular about services and what's not needed. This the
>> icon for my
>> anti-virus software.
>> It's odd. For the last week after purchasing an external hard drive I
>> can't get the
>> 'Safely remove hardware' icon to go away (Not just hide it). Now an icon
>> I want showing
>> keeps getting set to 'Hide'.
>> I hope Windows 7 has a few enhancements.
>>
>> James[/color]
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