I have tried my friend's 770 and when I unselect some items in Control Panel, they would disappear when I save the configuration.
But I just counld save any changes on my device...weird...

I was wondering if there is a "status bar config file" that I can manually edit and save?

@wassabi:
Thanks for your input.
Actually I know of a way to remove icons but I just couldnt save the changes...
As to the CPU monitor, I installed the "load-applet" and I do no know what a home applet is (me a newbie). But they just would not appear in my status bar.