LiquidRain

Hey all. I've spent all day googling, trying things, hunting for options, searching the forums, asking people, everything. There are no topics in the forum (or pages on Google) with a real solution to this problem. I have an nForce4 motherboard and use the onboard SATA for my HDD. Since it's SATA 2 it's hotpluggable. This causes the "safely remove hardware" icon to appear in my system tray. I do not want to merely hide the icon, I want it gone from my system tray. There is a program called Safely Remove Icon Remover, but ludicriously it costs $10 and is shareware. Nonetheless I downloaded and installed it, and sure enough it works as advertised. I've run FileMon and RegMon while enabling and disabling the Safely Remove Hardware icon and I can't find anything of interest - there are no values being written by this process, only queries, so it does not appear to be a registry hack. You can try the program yourself here: http://www.safelyremove.com/ If someone else would like to help me try and get to the bottom of this, it'd be appreciated. I have checked all manner of drive properties, the SATA controller properties, all that I can, and I can't find any way to make this a permanent drive seen as non-removable. Any help finding a solution would be much appreciated.

Ooooh, I was fooled by the whole "XP" in the name. =) Well, thank you!

Is this in the forums, or on the main site? I've dug around both and I can't find what you're referring to. Am I missing it or is it obscure? I can find GreenMachine's XP work easily enough...

Hello! I am trying to slipstream or perform a silent install of Internet Explorer 6 on my custom Windows 2000 installation disc. My problem is that I've googled the web, MSDN, and searched here, but I can't find a guide on how to slipstream it. So I tried bundling it on a GUIRunOnce batch, problem is, IE6 automatically reboots the machine when setup is over with - this kills any subsequent patches/programs I want to install on the runonce. Has anyone else tried this, and is there a solution at all? Or do I have to need to skip automatic IE6 patches and have IE6 install at the end of my RunOnce, and force the user to visit Windows Update to get IE patched? (edit: oops, should mention I'm doing this on an already-SP4-slipstreamed install)