Found New Hardware Wizard

[grant]

Running XP Pro 64. My printer works fine. However, on every startup the "Found New Hardware Wizaed" box appears re my printer (or it may be something else). Is there any way to disable this?

Also, how can I remeove the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon/facility from the taskbar.

And finally, I use Excel '97 and 2002. Whenever I save a '97 file, the message "This file was created using a later version", etc appears. Can I disable this?

Thank you for any advice.

Grant.