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Post January 22nd, 2004, 2:55 pm

Well we all know those F***OFF bars on the left side of the folders that give you some options on what to do with certain folders and files

well I hate them so I got rid of them, then the other day on of the little f-buggers popped up on my desktop I WANT TO KILL IT.

I have tried right clicking it and scowerd through the desktop proteries tell my eyes bleed.

any help would be greatly appreciated
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Post January 22nd, 2004, 2:55 pm

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Post January 23rd, 2004, 11:52 am

just a q what is a f***off bar?
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 12:20 pm

I have to agree, I had no clue what he was refering to either.
"There's no place like 127.0.0.1 except for ::1."
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 1:05 pm

The bar on the left side of a folder in XP, they have
-Folder task
detail
other places
ECT
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 4:38 pm

and it shows up on your desktop now? those are just called
"Common Tasks" in the folder settings.

You can get to them by --
right click My Computer/Properties/Advanced tab/Performance
and find it in the list.
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 4:50 pm

I tried seting the thing to "best apperence" then back to "best prformance" and made sure everything was unchecked. there not in my folders but there is still one on my desktop
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 4:57 pm

So you're basically saying you can't delete the shortop from the desktop? Did you right click and check properties? If so, is there any "target" information there? If not, click anywhere on your desktop and hit F5. It almost sounds like you have a shortcut to a program that was removed that is still haning around.
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 5:00 pm

It's not a shortcut it's the common tasks bar, it can't be right clicked nomatter how many times I've tried, and it hasn't gone away after reboots let alone refreshing
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 5:14 pm

weird -- i've never seen that before :scratchhead:
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 5:20 pm

I'll try creating another user on my computer to see if this machine is just infected with the helpful plauge or something
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 5:21 pm

what theme are you using?? if it's a 3rd party theme it's possible
that's how they built it.

try going to Windows Classic and see if it goes away. Classic
does not use the common tasks pane.
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 5:23 pm

this is right from Windows Help:
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To display links to common tasks in folders:
Open Folder Options in Control Panel.
Click Start, and then click Control Panel.
Click Appearance and Themes, and then click Folder Options.
On the General tab, under Tasks, click Show common tasks in folders.

The hyperlinks to common tasks in the left pane of your folder windows provide quick access to file and folder management activities and other places on your computer, such as My Computer, Shared Documents, and My Network Places. Windows displays these links by default, so they may already be displayed in your folders. If they are not, you can use Folder Options to enable this feature.
To disable this feature in your folders, on the General tab, under Tasks, click Use Windows classic folders.
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 5:25 pm

oh the new user did not have the common tasks bar on the desktop however I don't really want to preprogram my firewall setting, startmenu bar, desktop icons, quicklaunch bar, program settings, etc.
Unless someone know a way to do all of this quickly
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 5:27 pm

did you try what i suggested yet?
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Post January 23rd, 2004, 5:28 pm

umm trying to my folder optins is frozen for smome reason, going to rebot, I think it's time for a ram dump anyways
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