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From: Peter Foldes on 20 May 2010 08:53 Unlock your Taskbar. Right click on the taskbar on an empty space and select unlock by unchecking lock -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Ol�rin" <incanus(a)erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com> wrote in message news:%23Qs3g$$9KHA.5476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >I must have a wildly different setup or be misunderstanding something here - I >don't get the option to delete when I right--click a document in the Task Bar, nor >can I drag an entry there on to the desktop...! > > > "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:Oxwk9B39KHA.5012(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>I am glad it worked for you. Thanks for posting back >> >> -- >> Peter >> >> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others >> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. >> http://www.microsoft.com/protect >> >> "Bofhluser" <matt8500(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:4eed2b0e-cb25-4a70-abcf-225ceb5154cd(a)34g2000prs.googlegroups.com... >> On May 18, 9:05 am, "Peter Foldes" <maci252...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> What happens if you grab it from the taskbar and drag it to the desktop and then >>> delete it from there >>> >>> -- >>> Peter >> >> Took me several tries but it worked finally. The cursor has to be in >> the leftmost part of the icon space for it to work else all you did >> was create another shortcut on the desktop. That was frustrating, but >> at least now that I discovered that thing through numerous trial and >> errors, it's gone. What a relief! Thanks. > >
From: RobertVA on 20 May 2010 17:43 On 5/20/2010 5:36 AM, Ol�rin wrote: > I must have a wildly different setup or be misunderstanding something here - > I don't get the option to delete when I right--click a document in the Task > Bar, nor can I drag an entry there on to the desktop...! It's also a mystery to me. The only thing I ever see in the main section of my taskbar are buttons representing open documents. The buttons disapear when I close the corresponding document, leaving any saved image of the document, application that opens it AND any shortcuts to the application on the hard drive. The shortcuts in the Quick Launch section are like shortcuts on the desktop and can be dragged back and forth between those locations. As always deleting a shortcut doesn't delete the application itself. Clicking icons in the Links section opens a web page in the default browser. The web page can be on a remopte computer or on my computer's hard drive. Deleting the link leaves the web page where it was, basicly it's the equivalent to a browser favorite/bookmark. Behavioue of the icons in the notification area (where the time is displayed) is dependent on the coding of the application that put them there. Some have "exit/close" on their context menu. Others just remain until I otherwise close the associated application.
From: Ol�rin on 21 May 2010 04:11 .....nope! That doesn't change it for me - still no option to delete, and can't drag to desktop. That would be utterly new XP behaviour to me! This is the "actual" taskbar, isn't it? - the main strip, and not items in the Quick Launch toolbar, per the OP. (Sorry to be taking this one off on a bit of a tangent.) "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:uIyXbtB%23KHA.504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Unlock your Taskbar. Right click on the taskbar on an empty space and > select unlock by unchecking lock > > -- > Peter > > Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others > Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. > http://www.microsoft.com/protect > > "Ol�rin" <incanus(a)erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com> wrote in message > news:%23Qs3g$$9KHA.5476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>I must have a wildly different setup or be misunderstanding something >>here - I don't get the option to delete when I right--click a document in >>the Task Bar, nor can I drag an entry there on to the desktop...! >> >> >> "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:Oxwk9B39KHA.5012(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>>I am glad it worked for you. Thanks for posting back >>> >>> -- >>> Peter >>> >>> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others >>> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. >>> http://www.microsoft.com/protect >>> >>> "Bofhluser" <matt8500(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:4eed2b0e-cb25-4a70-abcf-225ceb5154cd(a)34g2000prs.googlegroups.com... >>> On May 18, 9:05 am, "Peter Foldes" <maci252...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> What happens if you grab it from the taskbar and drag it to the desktop >>>> and then >>>> delete it from there >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Peter >>> >>> Took me several tries but it worked finally. The cursor has to be in >>> the leftmost part of the icon space for it to work else all you did >>> was create another shortcut on the desktop. That was frustrating, but >>> at least now that I discovered that thing through numerous trial and >>> errors, it's gone. What a relief! Thanks. >> >> >
From: Peter Foldes on 21 May 2010 10:57 Ol�rin Are you by any chance trying to do this with the icons that is beside the clock -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. http://www.microsoft.com/protect "Ol�rin" <incanus(a)erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com> wrote in message news:%23xCzo0L%23KHA.1652(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > ....nope! That doesn't change it for me - still no option to delete, and can't > drag to desktop. That would be utterly new XP behaviour to me! This is the > "actual" taskbar, isn't it? - the main strip, and not items in the Quick Launch > toolbar, per the OP. (Sorry to be taking this one off on a bit of a tangent.) > > "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:uIyXbtB%23KHA.504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Unlock your Taskbar. Right click on the taskbar on an empty space and select >> unlock by unchecking lock >> >> -- >> Peter >> >> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others >> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. >> http://www.microsoft.com/protect >> >> "Ol�rin" <incanus(a)erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com> wrote in message >> news:%23Qs3g$$9KHA.5476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>I must have a wildly different setup or be misunderstanding something here - I >>>don't get the option to delete when I right--click a document in the Task Bar, >>>nor can I drag an entry there on to the desktop...! >>> >>> >>> "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:Oxwk9B39KHA.5012(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>>>I am glad it worked for you. Thanks for posting back >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Peter >>>> >>>> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others >>>> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. >>>> http://www.microsoft.com/protect >>>> >>>> "Bofhluser" <matt8500(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:4eed2b0e-cb25-4a70-abcf-225ceb5154cd(a)34g2000prs.googlegroups.com... >>>> On May 18, 9:05 am, "Peter Foldes" <maci252...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>> What happens if you grab it from the taskbar and drag it to the desktop and >>>>> then >>>>> delete it from there >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Peter >>>> >>>> Took me several tries but it worked finally. The cursor has to be in >>>> the leftmost part of the icon space for it to work else all you did >>>> was create another shortcut on the desktop. That was frustrating, but >>>> at least now that I discovered that thing through numerous trial and >>>> errors, it's gone. What a relief! Thanks. >>> >>> >> > >
From: Ol�rin on 21 May 2010 11:24
No, just the regular task bar "icons" - between Start button and clock, not Quick Launch (nor any other toolbar), not System Tray. Are you honestly telling me that if you open a Word document you can then right-click its "appearance" in the Task Bar (not a desktop icon) and delete it from the context menu? My flabber is soundly gasted! "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:umeGTXP%23KHA.4840(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Ol�rin > > Are you by any chance trying to do this with the icons that is beside the > clock > > -- > Peter > > Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others > Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. > http://www.microsoft.com/protect > > "Ol�rin" <incanus(a)erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com> wrote in message > news:%23xCzo0L%23KHA.1652(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> ....nope! That doesn't change it for me - still no option to delete, and >> can't drag to desktop. That would be utterly new XP behaviour to me! This >> is the "actual" taskbar, isn't it? - the main strip, and not items in the >> Quick Launch toolbar, per the OP. (Sorry to be taking this one off on a >> bit of a tangent.) >> >> "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> news:uIyXbtB%23KHA.504(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>> Unlock your Taskbar. Right click on the taskbar on an empty space and >>> select unlock by unchecking lock >>> >>> -- >>> Peter >>> >>> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others >>> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. >>> http://www.microsoft.com/protect >>> >>> "Ol�rin" <incanus(a)erkljrjre890aeraekj4na.com> wrote in message >>> news:%23Qs3g$$9KHA.5476(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>>>I must have a wildly different setup or be misunderstanding something >>>>here - I don't get the option to delete when I right--click a document >>>>in the Task Bar, nor can I drag an entry there on to the desktop...! >>>> >>>> >>>> "Peter Foldes" <maci252211(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >>>> news:Oxwk9B39KHA.5012(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>>>>I am glad it worked for you. Thanks for posting back >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Peter >>>>> >>>>> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others >>>>> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. >>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/protect >>>>> >>>>> "Bofhluser" <matt8500(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>>>> news:4eed2b0e-cb25-4a70-abcf-225ceb5154cd(a)34g2000prs.googlegroups.com... >>>>> On May 18, 9:05 am, "Peter Foldes" <maci252...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> What happens if you grab it from the taskbar and drag it to the >>>>>> desktop and then >>>>>> delete it from there >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Peter >>>>> >>>>> Took me several tries but it worked finally. The cursor has to be in >>>>> the leftmost part of the icon space for it to work else all you did >>>>> was create another shortcut on the desktop. That was frustrating, but >>>>> at least now that I discovered that thing through numerous trial and >>>>> errors, it's gone. What a relief! Thanks. >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> > |