Remove Show desktop button next to clock on Windows 10

It is possible to remove the show-desktop slice using the free app 7+ Taskbar Tweaker

To install with Chocolatey: choco install 7-taskbar-tweaker

Use the tweak called Hide the “show desktop” button:

Inspired by the answer by ChrisB, here is an AutoHotkey script that hides the button:

Control, Hide, , TrayShowDesktopButtonWClass1, ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd

If using AutoHotkey v2, the syntax is:

ControlHide("TrayShowDesktopButtonWClass1", "ahk_class Shell_TrayWnd")

(To use: Install AutoHotkey, save this to a .ahk file and doubleclick it. You can also add a shortcut to the startup folder in the start menu to have it run automatically on login.)

I really don't like those precompiled closed-source tools so here is a simple AutoIt script that you can copy in your startup folder:

$hwnd = WinGetHandle("[CLASS:Shell_TrayWnd]", "")
ControlHide($hwnd, "", "TrayShowDesktopButtonWClass1")