I understand.
For the missing icon. There is a way to remove it.
May you have a look at the FAQ about hiding the icon to see if you can put a value and put it back?
http://support.displaylink.com/knowl...-in-the-system
The icon should be present all the time from version 8.0.
This will help people diagnose their problem. Today, you need to have both the adapter/dock and the monitor plugged in to see the icon. The reasoning was that we only display the icon if you can do something with it: if there's a viewer available. But actually seeing there is an adapter but no monitor recognised is helpful information.