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messages and notifications will be easy just go the plugin languages and find the word and replace with html for a icon 

user name i dont know

or theres a few themes that do this  simplicity does it in admin so you can look its css to find out how its done 

I am afraid it has to be CSS fix

just go simplicty theme and use firebug to find the css for it and play with it in ur admin theme customs css 

Yes thanks big time. I did just that all it needs is background and set font-size to 0

try use display none 

Franz Stollenwerk this is internal page so it's cool + you need to hide text case you will be using background