Look to the top right of your screen, you’ve probably got a clock, battery meter (if your on a laptop), Airport status and maybe a bluetooth icon. Now if you want to easily get rid of them you have 2 choices - visit Apple’s Knowledgebase on the subject or my personal favourite hold down the Apple (Command) key and simply drag them off of the bar - hey presto - gone.Help - I need to get them back!!No problems, open finder and navigate to :

system/library/coreservices/menu extras

and double click on the menu item you wish to add back to the menu area - brilliant!