Unnecessary Taskbar Icons

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I try to be a minimalist with my desktop. It's cluttered with thinks I always
use, and I don't need other unnecessary things taking up space. My current
peeve is a "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. The only hardware its watching is
my USB wireless LAN connection (and if I don't want it I just unplug it). If
the icon function was wacthing ALL my hardware it would be ok, but its
currently a useless icon just taking up space. How do I disable this icon?
There is no obvious toggle.
 
Hide it. Use the Always hide option.

Right click the Taskbar | Properties | Taskbar tab |
Notification area
Select: Hide inactive icons
[[Keeps the taskbar notification area from displaying unused icons.]]

Customize button
[[Lets you specify the behavior of an icon in the taskbar notification area.
For each icon that has been displayed in the taskbar notification area, you
can choose from these options: Always show option to have the icon always
displayed; Always hide option to keep the icon from being displayed; Hide
when inactive option to keep an icon from being displayed when it has not
been clicked within a certain amount of time.]]
 
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