System tray icons

[Dynentan]

Hello

I am looking to remove these icons and pop ups in my system tray.

1) Safely remove hardware icon. Solved.

2) Microsoft security essentials icon.

3) Bluetooth message that pops up in the notification area everytime I start my computer and says that my bluetooth headphones are connected to my computer.

I have googled this issue and the only suggestions I could find is a guide from windows that explains how to hide these icons, however what I want to do is to remove them completely.

 

[whs]

Not a good move because both are essential for proper operation of the system.

 

[dsperber]

1) Safely remove hardware

Can't be removed, if you have "removable" devices connected and they have drive letters assigned. This includes external USB drives, phones, card readers, etc.

Any removable device which gets a drive letter has connected in MSC mode. Default support for this type of device utilizes buffered deferred output to the device, so that there may still be in-memory data that has not yet been written out but which obviously MUST be written out before you disconnect the removable device. If you pull the cable out before properly going through the "safely remove hardware" dialog for the device, you could do damage to the integrity of the file system or the data files themselves on the device.

So ANY removable device that you want to remove, you ALWAYS MUST FIRST click on the "safely remove hardware" icon, and then select the appropriate "eject" item in the popup list of currently connected removable devices. This will trigger Windows to write out any in-memory data which might still be unflushed yet. When this completes, you'll get a balloon message that "it is now safe to remove hardware", and now you can pull the cable.

So if you have that icon showing, it means you have removable devices that Windows is aware of. You need this icon in order to "safely remove hardware". The icon won't show if you don't have any removable devices currently connected. So why would you not want it to be visible???

2) Microsoft security essentials

If MSE is installed and running, this icon will appear. If you don't want to use that anti-Virus product, then uninstall it and you won't have the icon.

But as long as the product is installed it will produce its icon in the System Tray, to show you that you are protected. Its color changes depending on conditions (with green being normal), so why wouldn't you want it to be visible? You've already decided to use it (else you would just uninstall it, and thenyou wouldn't see the icon!).

 

[Dynentan]

I never really use the safely remove hardware icon, and all of my devices are working, so I don't see any reason to have it taking up space in the notification area.

Microsoft security essentials is configured to scan for virus and spyware on a daily basis, so again, I do not see a reason to have it in my notification area.

 

[GokAy]

You are better off simply hiding those but if you insist you can check this out: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/hide-or-remove-safely-remove-hardware-tray-icon/

I am not responsible for any damage to your removable devices or lost data!

 

[Dynentan]

That is something interesting stuff, I am going to check it out.

 

[ethan11james]

just click on customized button in system tray here you can see all icons and their behavior so choose which want to remove here you only hide notification and icon so choose hide icon and notification and click on save that's all after that icon not showing in system tray and you can't get notification from these apps

 

[Dynentan]

I am not interested in hiding them, I am interested in completely removing them.

 

[ethan11james]

you can't remove them only facility to hide them read full story at windows website
Remove icons from the notification area (system tray)

If you installed new software that time you choose create system tray icon or not

 

[Dynentan]

That windows guide says that it is going to tell us how to remove the icons from the notification area, but the guide actually only tells us how to hide them, and not remove them, so that guide isn't helping me out.

With that being said, I have tried the guide on the website that gokay suggested, and it works, when I use the batch file that removes the icon, the icon is removed.

The only problem is that I have to run the program everytime I start my computer.

 

[Ztruker]

Seems like much ado about nothing. Hide them and it's the same as if they are gone, you don't see them and they don't take up space in the System tray.

I'm just the opposite, I want to see all Systray icons all the time.

 

[AddRAM]

Leave them alone, they are there for a reason.

 

[GokAy]

Once again I am not responsible!

Copy the batch file (or shortcut - should work too) to:
C:\Users\<your user account name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

This should start it automatically each log in.

If you have other users in the computer add this inside their user files too.

 

[whs]

Why on earth do you go thru all that trouble for no gain at all. This is beyond me and I would be interested to know why people waste their time on such exercises.

 

[Dynentan]

Leave them alone, they are there for a reason.

The safely remove hardware icon is definitely not there for a reason, as I have set all my devices to quick removal, which means, according to windows, that you may disconnect the devices without using the safely remove hardware icon, as it can be seen on this picture.

I managed to get rid of the icon by placing a batch file in my startup folder, its not ideal but it works.

The microsoft security essentials icon seems to be completely removed in windows 10.

 

[sassofalco]

That windows guide says that it is going to tell us how to remove the icons from the notification area, but the guide actually only tells us how to hide them, and not remove them, so that guide isn't helping me out.

With that being said, I have tried the guide on the website that gokay suggested, and it works, when I use the batch file that removes the icon, the icon is removed.

The only (?) problem is that I have to run the program everytime I start my computer.

...and so the whole point of this worthless exercise is ??????????

 

[Ztruker]

The microsoft security essentials icon seems to be completely removed in windows 10.

Open Control Panel, change View to Small Icons.
Right click on Windows Defender and select Create a shortcut.

 

[Dynentan]

...and so the whole point of this worthless exercise is ??????????

To get rid of the annoyances and keep my notification area clean. I'm still looking for a way to get rid of the MSE icon as well as the bluetooth notification message.