The words "My Documents" are appearing occasionally on the lower left corner of my screen in the taskbar. Do not know how they are getting there. When I double left click on it, nothing happens. When I right click and "Close" it, my desktop disappears. Any ideas on what is causing this and how to cure it? Thanks

right click on a space anywhere on the screen and select rearrange icons or whatever you wish, see if that does it.

This sounds to me like you have had a previous version of Windows XP installed on your computer and someone has just installed another version of XP over the top of it, in what they thought was a good solution to fixing a problem *tsk tsk*. You see this mostly with so called recovery disks that manufacturers give out. By doing this it has caused problems, by making a incorrect shortcut on your taskbar relating to a profile that has reminants in your registry and not on your machine so it prouces this 'bug'. I am not sure wether this is documented or not but I have experienced this problem before. You have 3 choices: 1) Hack out all reminants of this from your registry 2) Fresh Install, format and reinstall. It's for the best. 3) Don't click the button ;) If I am wrong in my assumption please let me know any recent changes that you have made. There are 10 sort of people that exist in this world, The ones who understand binary and the rest

DaveyB When you mentioned recent changes, I realized that I had activated "Incinerate" from System Mechanic. When removed, the problem went away. When I tried to open "My Computer" from Windows Explorer, it would not open but then would lock up. When I picked "End Process" from the window that popped up, it would remove the desktop and I would have to reboot. Now, all is well. Thanks to both of you for responding.