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

title says it all

Step 1:

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

Step 2:

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

Step 3:

drag it to your task bar

Step 4:

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

Step 5:

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

Step 6:

now drag it to wherever you want