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[alpo41]

Is there any way to stop the tray icon from loading

[YourMessageHere]

Bump. I hate that thing, especially the way it leaps up every time you mouse vaguely near it and then won't go away until you click it. I know it's connected, I put it there. Where does the **bleep** thing live and how do we stop it?

[Nodd]

I'm having the same issues with that annoying "Drive Manager Status Icon" message popping up every time I go near my system tray. What was Seagate thinking? Anyone know how to stop it from doing that?

[Slim2none]

Drive Manager Status Tray Icon

What's taking you so long to help out here, Seagate?

I too finally got so exasperated with the Drive Manager tray icon's behavior and the inability to prevent it that I came to this site, took the time to find out how to sign up for an account on these Community Forums, did so, and then found that I was not the first to reach the point of exasperation. Here it is, Jan 01, 2009, and no answer/help from you guys yet --- nearly 6 months after the first posting on this subject I can find.

Will you help us NOW?

Really, truly, providing an update to this little Drive Manager Status utility would be trivial, such as one that provides a simple user-selectable switch that prevents the automatic pop-up of the information window on a mouse roll-over of the tray icon. I think we'd all be happy with that and that alone.

Slim2none

[MrButkus]

Easy fix... throw a few more icons there.   Then choose "auto hide"  you'll only see 2 or 3. 

I have only my AV, network and speaker showing.

[Martin-SF]

I agree wholeheartedly with Slim2None. The annoying, totally useless, non-standard Maxtor status icon that keeps popping up and hanging around until I click it closed is one of the most braindead programming mistakes I have every seen a major software developer foist onto its customers, and Seagate's unwillingness to reply to forum messages about this problem shows even more disrespect to its customers than its unwillingness to fix the problem. Apparently Seagate has no interest in customer feedback because their website is the only one I have ever used that provides absolutely no way for customers to send email feedback about their products. Such arrogance is inexplicable.

[jhhorwitz]

In Windows Vista, at least, just right-click the a blank spot in the System Tray or in the Task Bar and select Properties. Select the Notification Area tab to see a few immediate choices. Click the "Customize" button and you can set the behavior for each item in the tray (Show, Hide, or Hide when inactive).

It also works in Windows XP. However, the Notification area isn't a separate tab--it's the lower half of the Task Bar tab.

JERRY.

Message Edited by jhhorwitz on 08-28-2009 08:21 AM

[OkieCoder]

Even if you hide the impertinent thing, it comes back when you reboot. This got rid of it permanently for me:

Start/Run/msconfig/Startup then uncheck Seagate FreeAgent.

I'm running Vista but it should work with other versions of Windows.

[jhhorwitz]

Coder,

The problem with your solution is that you no longer have the other software features readily available.

If it came back, I wonder whether there might be two slightly different cases of it that require you to get rid of the second case, as well. It might be worth trying one more time.