Disable ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ Balloon Popup Notification in Windows
ADVERTISEMENTSIf you’re frequently interrupted by warnings and notifications coming from the system tray on Windows XP when you insert a new USB disk drive, you can easily disable it.
Here’s the procedure to disable the ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ warning popup notification in Windows:
- Right click on the taskbar and click ‘Properties’
- Under the ‘Taskbar’ tab, click the ‘Customize’ button that appears near the bottom of the window
- Locate ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ and choose ‘Always Hide’
You’ve now disabled the ’safely remove hardware’ balloon notifications in Windows XP. In order to remove your external drive, you can go to My Computer, right click on the disk icon and click ‘Eject’/'Safely Remove’ and safely remove it. Thanks Download Blog!
April 12th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
I have never tried eject before and I have always relied on sately remove…anyhow I just tried eject in vista and I was suprised to see nothing happening but you also have safely remove when you right click on the drive. I guess eject is for optical drives. Even if you hide this, you can always use the ’safely remove’ when you right click…
April 13th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
@Joel: Thanks for the info
July 24th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
thanks
the frequently icoming message for “safely remove hardware” was bothering me very much.
Thank you again
Zia
October 21st, 2008 at 5:17 pm
There is option in windows for such devices. Either they are optimized for quick removal or for good performance. In the former case, ejecting the drive without anything won’t do any harm but in the latter case, it might end up your pen drive life. So make sure what options are you on and then go for a method.
Shankar, I dont think we have get a option for safe removal when we right click on the drive in My Computer. And this disabling the icon trick doesn’t have any effect on the context menu too. I am also not sure what the eject option exactly do to the drive.
I have written several posts regarding usb devices in the past and one of my all time favorite is Safely Remove pen drive when icon disappears from the system tray.