PCWorks: Stubborn icons in the System Tray

Harold:
        Evidently you are leaving your flash drive
plugged in all the time.  If you remove it when
the icon says it is "safe to remove hardware"
(when the flash drive is not being accessed),
the icon will go away.

Wally

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:49:34 -0400 "Harold B."
<harold7rcn.com> writes:
> Hello again,
> 
> Using Windows XP on a Compaq and using AVG and
ZoneAlarm along with 
> Ad-aware,
> Spybot, etc. to protect the system, and having heard
that it is not 
> wise to
> use multiple vir*s protectors, I deleted what is called
here, 
> "Windows
> Security System". I see no adverse effects but
the "Windows Security 
> Alerts"
> icon remains on the System Tray. It looks like a small
red badge 
> with a white
> x on it. Does anyone know where in the system I can
remove that icon 
> OR, is
> there any program that removes "stubborn"
icons from the System 
> Tray?
> 
> While I'm at it, there is also an icon there called
"Safely Remove 
> Hardware"
> and when open, there are two icons listed both reading
"USB Mass 
> Storage
> Device" (which contrary to the name,
"Safely Remove Hardware," will 
> never stay
> removed). Since nothing else ever appears in that 
"Safely Remove 
> Hardware"
> window, I might use the above mentioned System Tray
"stubborn icon 
> remover"
> (if there is one) to also remove that "Safely
Remove Hardware" icon. 
> I'd be
> happy to keep just three icons in that System Tray
(AVG, ZoneAlarm, 
> and the
> internet connection; I don't count the clock as an
icon). --- 
> Harold
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