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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Basics / February 2007Taskbar Toolbar
Ho do you unmake a taskbar toolbar? JimL -- > Ho do you unmake a taskbar toolbar? Right-click on a blank part of the Taskbar, click Toolbars, then New Toolbar.  SignatureKen Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup > Ho do you unmake a taskbar toolbar? > > JimL Right-click on it and then left-click on Delete. Malke SignatureElephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >> Ho do you unmake a taskbar toolbar? >> >> JimL > > Right-click on it and then left-click on Delete. "Unmake"! He said "unmake"! Sorry, inkleput, for misreading your message. Ken >>> Ho do you unmake a taskbar toolbar? >>> >>> JimL >> >> Right-click on it and then left-click on Delete. >"Unmake"! He said "unmake"! >Sorry, inkleput, for misreading your message. >Ken 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 -- >>>> Ho do you unmake a taskbar toolbar? >>>> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > JimL 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 SignatureElephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >>>>> Ho do you unmake a taskbar toolbar? >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> >> JimL >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 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 -- > 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 - [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > 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. 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 SignatureElephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >> 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 - [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> 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. >No, that's not what I'm saying. All the items on the Start Menu are all 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. >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 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 SignaturePeople with nothing to say rarely let that stop them from saying it > 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 [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > JimL 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 SignatureElephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User >> Ho do you unmake a taskbar toolbar? >> >> JimL >Right-click on it and then left-click on Delete. >Malke Unfortunately that also deletes the object the toolbar is derived from. JimL -- |
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