How to get rid of "safely remove hardware" from system tray

[greggery]

I recently installed a HP printer/scanner on my Win XP Pro system. I now have this little "safely remove hardware" icon in my system tray and find it very annoying as I definitely to not want to remove this printer. Is there a way to get rid of it manually? Will it eventually diasapear by itself? Thanks for the help.

[Platypus]

Suggested here:

http://www.tipsdr.com/windows-xp-tips.html

"If you have an USB device attached to your system, you will notice an icon in the Notification area, which - when clicked - will give you the option to Stop your hardware, before you unplug it.
It is possible that you never unplug this hardware. So how do you get rid of the icon? As far as I know the only way is to right-click the notification area, and selecting Properties. Under the Notification area heading, click Customize. Find the Safely Remove Hardware icon and select Always hide in the Behavior column next to it (press OK and Apply to back out)."

Hope it helps.