Suppose some of the icons in your Notification Area (Systray) are annoying you and consequently you want to hide them. My challenge is can you find the Properties sheet for the Notification Area? One trap is to click too far to the left and select the Properties sheet for the Taskbar, another trap is click on the actual speaker icon instead of on a vacant black area.
Once you spring up the menu shown to the right, you can select Customize Notification Icons directly from the short cut menu. Alternatively, you can select Properties and then Customize Icons. To fulfil my objective, we can now focus on the 'Behavior' Column and choose to 'Hide'. Repeat this last sequence for each of the Notification Icons that annoy you.
