Heck, even Windows 10 does this. I don't mind the weather icon in the taskbar, but sometimes it changes to news or market data, which is exactly what I do _not_

Heck, even Windows 10 does this. I don't mind the weather icon in the taskbar, but sometimes it changes to news or market data, which is exactly what I do _not_ want to see when I am playing games on my old Windows machine.