Hide Spotify from Windows 7 Task Bar

When Spotify is running, it shows a little icon in the activity field. On most operative systems, closing the Spotify window minimizes the player to the activity window, freeing up space in the task bar - but not in Windows 7, it seems.

I think it's a little uneccessary to have two icons in almost the same place that does almost the same thing. Is there anyway to hide a program icon from the task bar, in this case specifically Spotify?

Solution 1:

You can right click the tray icon and 'check' "Hide from Taskbar when Closed".

And then click the cross :)

I had the same problem and found the solution on Google.

Altough it would be great if it was also on the Preferences page where I looked first.