Juanita, The answer to your question 'Why did it appear?' . There is a feature in XP where you can drag a folder off the edge of the screen, and it will create a new Toolbar. I have seen it happen a few times where someone did this by accident, and I guess that is what you did. If you do it with 'My Computer', you will get a nice convenient toolbar of everything in 'My Computer' You can do it on all edges of the screen. The toolbars can be set to auto hide. Les Hardy On 29/12/11 23:07, juanita wrote: > Aha! It worked....thanks much. > > juanita > ks > > >> Does it have a line of dot at the top of the bar? >> If yes, just right click the dotty line, and choose 'Close Toolbar' >> from the menu. >> >> If not, then I don't know what it is. >> >> Les Hardy >> >> On 29/12/11 20:47, juanita wrote: >>> I'm using Windows XP. This morning the Desktop has a white bar >>> about an inch or so wide running down the left side of the screen. >>> It has names of all the folders on my machine. The blue part of the >>> window still has the regular desk top icons and looks the same as it >>> had. >>> >>> Why did this suddenly appear and does anyone know a solution to >>> removing it? It doesn't necessarily hinder me getting into any of >>> the folders on the blue Desktop but I don't want the white bar >>> running down the left side of the window. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> juanita >>> ks >>> >>> >>> ******************** >>> >>> Gen-Newbie's website: >>> >>> http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> ******************** >> >> Gen-Newbie's website: >> >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ******************** > > Gen-Newbie's website: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~newbie/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GEN-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >