PCWorks: Stubborn icons in the System Tray

Harold, I know I've said this before, but you just can't 
"delete" things you don't want on your PC,
especially when they 
are part OF Windows.    That
"badge" icon is the Windows 
Security Center (you do mean "center" and not
"system", 
right?), and while I don't see much use for it, the proper
way 
to turn it off is under XP's Services since it is a
"Service". 
Just disable it from there, or better yet put in on
"Manual" 
then it will only start if you ever need to open it.  It's
not 
any AV software nor a firewall.  It basically just tells you

what you already know, and that is if you have any AV
software 
installed, and if the firewall is enabled.  (That's going
from 
memory because SpyBot screwed mine up, but since I don't
need 
it I didn't worry about it).

Anytime you have a firewire or USB storage device connected,

you'll have that other icon in the system tray.  It also 
sometimes shows up there with 3rd party HD controllers.  You

don't want to remove that.  Even if the USB and firewire 
devices are hot-pluggable, there are many times types of
"read 
and write cacheing" going on (like with compact flash
and 
similar cards, thumb drive devices for only two examples)
and 
if you just physically remove or disconnect them it can
damage 
the media if you don't "Safely remove hardware"
first.  This 
can ALSO take place even if in the Device Manager you have
the 
box for the device checked "Optimize for quick
removal".
-Clint

God Bless
Clint Hamilton, Owner
http://OrpheusComputing.c
om

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harold B."

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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