BOTTOM TASK BAR

[butterfly]

When i first start up my computer and the desktop appears
there are to many icons at the bottom left hand corner. I
don't want to permanently delet them but i would like for
just a few selective icons to be available to me in that
area.. Does anyone know how i can delete these icons just
from that bottom left hand corner on my taskbar without
deleting the programs themselves?

[Norm]

They are just shortcuts to the programs executable file, you will not be
deleting the program by deleting the shortcut.

"butterfly" > wrote in message
...
> When i first start up my computer and the desktop appears
> there are to many icons at the bottom left hand corner. I
> don't want to permanently delet them but i would like for
> just a few selective icons to be available to me in that
> area.. Does anyone know how i can delete these icons just
> from that bottom left hand corner on my taskbar without
> deleting the programs themselves?
>

[wes]

You should also be able to grab a small gray vertical bar on the task bar
(depending on how you have it set up, of course) and dragging it to the
left. This will result in a double right pointing > type sign where the
hidden icons will still be available when clicked on. But, as someone has
already mentioned, you can also just delete them, they are only icons
pointing to the actual program.

"butterfly" > wrote in message
...
> When i first start up my computer and the desktop appears
> there are to many icons at the bottom left hand corner. I
> don't want to permanently delet them but i would like for
> just a few selective icons to be available to me in that
> area.. Does anyone know how i can delete these icons just
> from that bottom left hand corner on my taskbar without
> deleting the programs themselves?

[Ken Blake]

In ,
butterfly > typed:

> When i first start up my computer and the desktop appears
> there are to many icons at the bottom left hand corner. I
> don't want to permanently delet them but i would like for
> just a few selective icons to be available to me in that
> area.. Does anyone know how i can delete these icons just
> from that bottom left hand corner on my taskbar without
> deleting the programs themselves?


If by "the bottom left corner," you mean the Quick Launch Bar,
everything there is just a shortcut, and can be deleted with
impunity. Deleting a shortcut to a program does not delete the
program itself.

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Ken Blake
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