I don't have any external devices plugged in but I'm seeing the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" icon in my taskbar:
How do I get rid of it without hiding it permanently so when I do plug in a media, it still shows it on the taskbar?
This appeared all of a sudden last week and remains even after a restart. It definitely wasn't there before this month's patch Tuesday updates two weeks ago, but I can't remember if appeared immediately after the updates. (Felt like it appeared a few days after.)
This is on a 2016 Surface Book with Windows 10 Pro (Version 1703 Build 15063.674) with the latest updates on the CBB branch.
This may be related to "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in Windows 8 but I also have a "..." underneath the icon and the highest-voted answer posted there didn't help since I don't have a USB 2.0 reader device:
