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inkleputDEL
Ho do you unmake a taskbar toolbar?
JimL
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Ken Blake, MVP
Right-click on a blank part of the Taskbar, click Toolbars, then New
Toolbar.
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Malke
Right-click on it and then left-click on Delete.
Malke
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Ken Blake, MVP
Malke said:
"Unmake"! He said "unmake"!
Sorry, inkleput, for misreading your message.
Ken
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inkleputDEL
Unfortunately that also deletes the object the toolbar is derived from.
JimL
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inkleputDEL
on 02/26/07 said:
Right. Some time back, acting on a TweakUI tip, I experimented by
dragging a desktop icon of my own design onto the taskbar. I don't know
how I turned it off, but it suddenly reappeared on the taskbar yesterday.
I figured out how to make it not show, but deleting it also deletes the
original icon/object.
Totally aside, I turned my Quick Launch toolbar off and back on. All the
icons were rearranged. No biggie, but uncalled for.
JimL
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Malke
It sounds like you didn't make a real shortcut. Copy the real item to
which the shortcut is pointing and put it in a safe place, not where the
shortcut points. Now delete all your shortcuts to that item, including
the icon on the toolbar. Now you can make a real shortcut to the item on
your desktop if you like. Then make your new toolbar. Since you aren't
really telling us exactly what you did, that's as specific as I can get.
Malke
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inkleputDEL
Well, the original is a folder of commonly used utilities, located in my
personal Start Menu -> Programs. (I'm not at all sure how it got there -
I'm new to windows.)
You're right, the icon on the desktop was a copy, not a shortcut. I think
you are saying there is no way to delete a toolbar without deleting what
it is pointing to, and, therefore you must have at least one extra copy of
the original so the system has it and a shortcut to destroy. Odd.
Thanks
JimL
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Malke
No, that's not what I'm saying. All the items on the Start Menu are also
shortcuts to something. So if you have a shortcut on the Start Menu that
is a folder with various entries, the various entries are all shortcuts
to something. Maybe we could approach this differently since we seem to
be having a bit of a communication difficulty.
What is the item that you wish a shortcut of? Do you want a toolbar or
do you want a shortcut to a folder? Do you want a shortcut on the
Desktop? Tell me what you are actually trying to do and I'll tell you
how to get there.
Malke
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inkleputDEL
on 02/27/07 said:
I meant to say it was "located in my personal (Documents and Settings ->
"my name") -> Start Menu -> Programs" folder, not on the menu. It was not
a shortcut in the menu that I used, but the original folder in the above
mentioned directory that I dragged to the desktop and, days later, tried
making a toolbar from.
What is the item that you wish a shortcut of? Do you want a toolbar or
do you want a shortcut to a folder? Do you want a shortcut on the
Desktop? Tell me what you are actually trying to do and I'll tell you
how to get there.
Again, the question was about how to unmake what I had already made
without deleting what it pointed to - which deletion did happen once
already. (Then, the toolbar suddenly appeared from nowhere a day ago.)
JimL
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Malke
Your Start Menu that you see when you click the Start Button *is*
located in Documents and Settings>Your Username>Start Menu. It is the
same thing. The folder in the Start Menu is not a shortcut. The items
*inside* the folder are shortcuts. You can create all the folders you
want on your Start Menu. The only thing I can figure is that you dragged
the folder from your Start Menu (yes, the very same one that is really
in Documents and Settings, etc.) to the Desktop. What you should have
done was right-clicked/dragged/copied and then both the original folder
with its shortcuts in the Start Menu and the new copy of same would have
remained.
So to answer the question, all you would need to do is to
right-click/drag/copy the folder and its contents back from the toolbar
or the Desktop or wherever you put it *back* to your Start Menu. And
then delete the *copy* of it that remained on the toolbar or Desktop or
wherever you put it.
An easier way to manage the Start Menu is to right-click on the Start
Button and choose "Explore" and then you'll get the familiar two-paned
Explorer window where you can copy, move, etc. as you desire.
I have no idea why your toolbar suddenly appeared.
Malke