Windows: Completely remove Action Center icon

Personally, the Action Center in Windows (that annoying white flag in the notification area, always telling you to repent and change the way you administrate your system) is one of the things I ever felt the biggest hate for.

It can be set to be hidden with its notifications, but when you'll click on the little triangle in your notification area to access the other icons you have hidden (e.g. to safely remove some peripheral) you'll still see it, with its annoying number of "wrong" things, telling you that you set your updates to manual, and such.

So, here is how to remove its icon completely from the notification area. The process is reversible and can be applied in each Windows 7 version, but I believe the solution is valid for Windows 8 and 8.1 too, someone with those OSs can confirm me.

I'm sorry if this post results as a duplicate, but I searched and I've found no question about removing the Action Center icon, plus the complete solution I gave is not listed anywhere I found in the internet, it is a "collage" of different posts around.