Unwelcome desktop "toolbar"

[Mommalina]

XP Pro.

 

A few days ago I created an Unused Desktop Shortcuts folder. Works

great.

 

While accessing the folder today, a "toolbar" (?) suddenly appeared on the

top of the screen. It reads: Unused Desktop Shortcuts, the names of 5

of the items in the shortcut folder, and finally, "Unused Desktop Shortcuts"

(the latter provides access to all the items in the folder).

 

How do I get rid of this toolbar? Any idea how it got there? When moving

the icon, I wonder if I hit the top of the screen causing the toolbar to

install ... :confused:

 

Thanks!

[Mommalina]

Problem resolved. A few more right-clicks on the toolbar finally revealed a way to

delete it.

[allheart55 Cindy E]

I'm glad you resolved it, Lina.

I was going to ask Pete to take a look at your thread.

[starbuck]

Hi Lina,

 

I bet there's a lot of people that didn't realize they could turn any folder into a toolbar. lol.

You never know.... you may actually want to do that for real one day. :)

 

Take any folder on your machine, drag it and drop it on any side of your desktop (when half of the icon is visible). As you drop it, it immediately converts into a toolbar (there's no visual hint to tell you that this will happen). Once like that, you can do a simple click on any item to activate it exactly as if it were a button!

[allheart55 Cindy E]

I had no idea, Pete.

[Mommalina]

Hi Lina,

 

I bet there's a lot of people that didn't realize they could turn any folder into a toolbar. lol.

You never know.... you may actually want to do that for real one day. :)

 

Take any folder on your machine, drag it and drop it on any side of your desktop (when half

of the icon is visible). As you drop it, it immediately converts into a toolbar (there's no visual

hint to tell you that this will happen). Once like that, you can do a simple click on any item to

activate it exactly as if it were a button!

 

Thanks, Pete. That explains how I inadvertently created that task bar.

[allheart55 Cindy E]

It's the first time I ever heard of anything like this happening.

I learn new things every day.

[Mommalina]

I had no idea, Pete.

 

You are not alone, Cindy. :woohoo:

 

After working years all day long with computers, my computer-savvy

son's daughter enlightened him about this tip:

 

To transfer or delete a bunch of entries at one time

- highlight the first item

- press and hold down Shift

- highlight the last entry (it and all previous entries will highlight,

all while holding down Shift)

- release Shift

- place cursor on any highlighted item, and delete or transfer

them - all at one time!