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Unwanted box on desktop
Name: Ricardo Date: January 28, 2002 at 05:27:33 Pacific
Comment:
This is for Windows XP Pro. I get a strange box on the left side of my desktop that's driving me crazy. It's got three boxes -- Folder Tasks, Other Places, Details -- with s dropdown menu. How do I get rid of it? It's in the way. It wasn't there when I first installed WinXP.
Name: Geo Hoffman Date: January 28, 2002 at 08:53:01 Pacific
Reply:
Go to Windows explorer. Click tools, folder options, then select "use windows classic folders".
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Response Number 2
Name: Ricardo Date: January 28, 2002 at 14:12:50 Pacific
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That box remains in Classic also. There must be some other configuration that was turned on somehow.
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Response Number 3
Name: paul Date: April 2, 2002 at 22:58:29 Pacific
Reply:
I turned active desktop off and got rid of the web content on my desktop and this went away... it worked for me after ebooting... here's the site on how to turn off active desktop...
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Summary: Hi jam, Tks for your advice. I can't find it. The story is as follow; My niece, a girl of 12, sent me her PC running WinXP for rescue. She has all her school homework on the PC without spare copies. ...
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