You may also have to click Start to shutdown. ;-)
Old Bill Shakespeare may have said...
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet."
But you're better off using the proper terms.
From XP Help and Support.
taskbar
[[The bar that contains the Start button and appears by default at the
bottom of the desktop. You can click the taskbar buttons to switch between
programs. You can also hide the taskbar, move it to the sides or top of the
desktop, and customize it in other ways.]]
Taskbar
[[A special toolbar that docks on an edge of the desktop supplied by the
system. The taskbar includes the Start button, a button for each open
primary window, and a status area.]]
taskbar button
[[A button that appears on the taskbar and corresponds to a running
application.]]
The status area is called the notification area. In earlier versions of
Windows it was called the system tray.
notification area
[[The area on the taskbar to the right of the taskbar buttons. The
notification area displays the time and can also contain shortcuts that
provide quick access to programs, such as Volume Control and Power Options.
Other shortcuts can appear temporarily, providing information about the
status of activities. For example, the printer shortcut icon appears after a
document has been sent to the printer and disappears when printing
is complete.]]
Start Button
<quote>
By default, the Start Button is visible at all times in the lower left-hand
corner of the screen. It features the Windows logo and the word "start".
Clicking the Start Button activates the Start Menu.
The "Start Button" and its menu were lauded as a leap forward in user
friendliness and interface design when they were first introduced in Windows
95. The symbol of the Start Button was, and still is, used to advertise the
product. Furthermore, Microsoft has embraced the word "start" as their
"catch word", and it is frequently used in their advertising even today.
The use of the word "Start" is also seemingly a contradiction, as it is used
to select the Shut Down option used to switch off (and therefore stop using)
the computer. Some would counter that even an action such as "Shut Down"
must at some point be "started". The Start button is used to start a task or
process, including the Shut Down process.
<quote>
from...
Start menu - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_button
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Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quean said:
i'll speak s.l.o.w.l.y.... for 'all' MS-MVP's that may be reading... <evil
grin> (it were a joke)
yes! my <start> bar is akin to 'your' taskbar...
<regrets> for 'my' error -- and i thought computa's were intelligent
idiots... something my 1st puta-science teacher 'reputed' -- don't know
the 'big' words to make 'it' okaty/alright for you
it's just that... this 'windose' OS reads <start> not <task> on said
bar...
/me 's just a simple-man 'lost' in the world of <options>
Quean aka (e-mail address removed)
Wesley Vogel said:
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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Quean <
[email protected]> hunted and pecked:
my desktop is clear of both <start bar> and <shortcut bar>
that could be braggaed of me... it's like i care
to get your <start bar> to disappear, when not in use, you might like
to...
point 'mouse point' to an open area on your SB... right click. Dunno
what the other <check boxes> do, alack i don't 'mess' with 'em... [Auto
hide]
to get the shortcut bar to vanish, is much the same... "if we could get
some help here guys?"
is there a way to get rid of past items in the task bar? I have
programs I have uninstalled, but they still appear in the past items
notifications
part
of the taskbar.
Then again, who needs Ctrl+Alt+Del to reboot when you can use 0xFE (11111110) to "reboot" the system