safely remove hardware icon

[dedndave]

your registry entry looks correct
you might try setting the value to 0
i see that reg entry all over the web

there is a way to right-click on the safely remove icon and tell it to always hide, but i am not sure that is a great idea
also, i was looking for a way to do it programatically - i think that's what you want

[jj2007]

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