taskpane on desktop?

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mickey&jimmy

What is this thing crowding my desktop icons, covering up my beautiful
wallpaper with some useless nonsense about my folder tasks and this
other junk that's just an annoying waste of space? I can't grab it, move
it, close it or anything! Is this a task pane? How do I exorcise it? It
needs to be gone! Help. I'm running XP for home and this did not come up
until I got the last win service pack update, not that it could be
that...Please help! Thanks ahead of time!
Mickey
 
Thanks much David! So what was that critter and how'd I get it, if you
got a moment to explain.
Mickey
 
It's unknown how it happens. But the registry key saying the desktop is special goes missing. Then I speculate that if the folder gets sniffed (when there are no saved settings for a folder XP tries to work out what to display as based on the content) it treated as a normal folder, which it's not.
 
I got the same thing and I have not figured out how to
clear that yet but if you have could you pls reply to
(e-mail address removed) If I find out how I will com back
here and let you know ok
 
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