2nd printer issue

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beef

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Hey guys, just installed drivers for a 2nd printer. Followed all the instructions etc... Both the printers work(Epson Stylus CX5400 & a Brother MFC 4800, both on USB), but I now have an "Safely remove hardware" icon in the Systray. I click on it and it says "select the device you want to unplug" and shows the Brother printer. The thing is, I don't want to remove the printer and I want that icon gone. Installed the Brother drivers twice just to make sure I didn't screw anything up.Any ideas? Running WinXP Pro SP2. I guess I can learn to live with it by ignoring the icon, but I do like to keep that area as barren as possible, ( Firewall, AV, & folding). Thanks
 
Lol im sorry but i had tolaugh i wouldn't be complaining if both work fine and its just a little icon thats bugging you however
What the icon means: When you remove a piece of hardware you can damage the sonponets in some im not to sure by using this the safely remove hardware icon you can disconnect the piece of hardware safly without damaging the hardware at all

how to get rid of that icon
on the taskbar (the bar at the bottom of your screen) right click on a unoccupied area and select properties

then under the tab taskbar you will see at the bottom the icons that are displayed click the button labelled customise

Find the safly remove hardware icon and on the right of it on the pull down menu select Always hide

And your done :D
 
Ya, I understand the purpose of the icon; with my dig. camera etc.. but what I was getting at is that it is a printer, not a device which I'll be constantly re-connecting. I have the "hide inactive icons" box unchecked, so that fix doesn't work for me. I know its a minor thing to be bitching about, but... what can I say?
 
beef said:
Ya, I understand the purpose of the icon; with my dig. camera etc.. but what I was getting at is that it is a printer, not a device which I'll be constantly re-connecting. I have the "hide inactive icons" box unchecked, so that fix doesn't work for me. I know its a minor thing to be bitching about, but... what can I say?
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Does the printer have Card Slots? If so it is because the card slots are seen as active Mass Storage devices by the OS. Do not worry, nothing is wrong. Just about every printer that has card slots will give you this "Safely remove hardware" icon.

 
You could try to go into your device manager and click on properties on external storage devices. On the policies tab, you should be able to have two options there. Click on the "Optimize for quick removal". See if it works.

-J.
 
Zoobaby, no, this thing doesn't have any card slots. Thanks though, bit of info for the future.
GeForceX device manager does not show an external device tab. But while rooting around in there I notice 5 instances referring to the Brother printer. For some reason, it shows up in com/lpt. I thought these were parallel and serial legacy ports which I have disabled in my Bios. I have to go to the casino tonight, but tomorrow I think I'll try to install each driver seperatly
 
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