>Any means to turn it off then ?

No, because the actual three at the top are judged are necessary and very useful and the upcoming ones will be visible to all as well. It might seem a little bit empty right now for you because I see that you only have Online users and Folders in there. But, still, at this point, you have as many options as you had before. It is just that the content is splitted in fix items (the time warp, the search and the message ID search) followed by the dashboard, which are bound to auto refresh. But, I still do not understand the point about the empty area as this includes the same amount of options as before. But, as I said, I need to add more options and this is where they will all fit (in the upper part) so this will fill it up a little bit more.