The "notification area", which is in the bottom-right corner of your computer screen is a group of small icons to the left of your system clock. In early versions of Windows it called the "system tray".

As you install new programs on your computer, this collection of icons will continue to grow . Each icon takes up valuable space on your Task Bar. One way to control this rapid growth is to hide the icons that you don't use every day.

Right-click on the system clock in the bottom-right corner of your screen, and click on Properties. Now click on the Customize button on the Taskbar tab to open the Customize Notifications window.

To hide an icon, click on it and then click on the down arrow at the right of the listed behavior. Select Always Hide to hide an icon, and on Always Show that you always want to show.

Click OK to close, and you're finished.