Macintosh Hd on desktop

Hi, im a new mac user and i wanna take off(delete) the macintosh hd icon located on my desktop. is that possible? how i do it?

Choose Preferences from the Finder menu, click on the General tab, and uncheck the 'hard disks' box.
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Okay, I really promise this time not to touch anything I am not supposed to.
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