Windows 10: disable safely remove hardware icon

it has never caused any problems for all the years ive been using usb sticks but the icon has always been annoying

im going to use the bat file work around but if anyone knows of a solution to get rid of the icon without using a bat file then please post in this thread or send me a pm

 

anyone ever find a solution to this? I know it used to be possible in older versions of windows but i digress. Going to use the .bat myself as we speak for now ;p

ty for that!

 

I'm also having this problem and found a better solution. Download this program. It will disable that annoying icon since windows doesn't give the option to do that. You also won't have to see that annoying window pop up on your desktop from the bat file everytime you start your computer. Still, I find it a bit silly that you need a program installed to fix it, so if anyone knows of a registry fix or something let me know.

This is incorrect. There is no reason to use the safely remove hardware icon if the usb flashdrives are optimized for quick removal. Which is also what windows says as you can see on edwins screengrab.