How to Create a Blank Spot in Your Windows 7 Taskbar, the Easy Way

title says it all

right click the desktop and select new-->text document

don't type any thing and save it as drive.exe
                                                               all files

drag it to your task bar

right clic the icon then richt click drive and select properties
change the target to c:\ and start in to c:\
change the icon to a transparent one

right click the desktop and click personalise and then click change desktop icons, and change at least 1, that will reset your icons and render the blank spot to transparent

now drag it to wherever you want