Hiding a SETI@Home Icon

I have a Windows 2000 PC and have nothing in my system tray. I use my SETI program and it gives me the normal green icon. I want to know how, within the registry maybe, I can hide this icon. I want to see if I can keep my tray clean of icons.
I looked ito programs that do hide system tray icons but they add on their own icon.
So does anyone know how i can in the registry change a setting to hide the icon? If I want to run the program to see my stats, I can just execute the icon on the desktop.
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