Thanks for the advice, but the HHC didn't work for me. I was able to "remove" the tabs, but when I would return to the today screen, the "removed" tabs are still there and fully functional (even after a few reboots).
However, I now have another issue... Since the HHC didn't do what I installed it to do I figured I'd go ahead and uninstall it. But after removing the program and performing a reboot, the program icon is still in the programs folder (see screencap below) but when I tap it I get an error message and the icon is not the original HHC icon. I have tried a few things, including going thru the registry and removing all instances of "customizer" the search feature could find, but
So my new question is this:
How do I get rid of this orphaned and otherwise useless icon?