Allow Windows to recognize eHDD as a regular drive?

[wyattzx]

Hey guys. 

 

I wish to clean up my taskbar, and one of the things that irks me is the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" button. This is because I have a WD MyBook 2TB plugged in over USB 3.0. This device holds a bunch of my shows, movies, and daily backups of my main drive and media drive. I understand that Windows recognizes this device as something akin to a USB flash drive, but I wish to remove the icon from my tray entirely. (Not just hide it in the expandable area.) I've found a few registry edits online, but some of them look shady. Another is a batch file that you run at startup that disables the icon. 

 

What I was thinking, is perhaps using a registry edit (or something else) to force Windows to recognize the eHDD as if it were a normal drive. If not this, then is there a better or easier solution for removing the icon from my taskbar? 

 

I'm on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit! 

 

Thanks.

[rheyL]

you can just edit the taskbar and set it to "HIDE" 

so that the icon wont show even if expanding the taskbar

[wyattzx]

15 minutes ago, rheyL said:

you can just edit the taskbar and set it to "HIDE" 

so that the icon wont show even if expanding the taskbar

I'm going to guess you have no idea what you're talking about, as that isn't possible.

[rheyL]

my bad.. i see it cant be hide permanently..

i guess there is no other option but to mess with the registry