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The flag icon is for the Action Center and the red ‘x’ indicates notification alerts prompting you to make certain changes to the system settings (You can click the link that reads ‘2 issues to be fixed’ to read the messages.).

You can choose to either act on the messages or ignore them (in case they are things that you have intentionally set).

You can refer to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd492018.aspx to turn off the notifications.

Here’s to Good Karma