Right click in a blank area next to the toolbar you
are talking about.
A menu will appear, hover over "toolbars",
uncheck the Desktop one and it will go away.
My wife just got a new computer with Win XP. Somehow, she got her Desktop icon into a toolbar that rests next to the system tray and is named Desktop. Clicking on this icon opens up a window with all programs and icons that normally would be on the Desktop. However, her Desktop is totally empty. If I turn off the Desktop toolbar, her Desktop remains completely empty. So the question is "How do we get the icons to appear on the Desktop rather than be buried down on the taskbar?"
My laptop is running Win ME and I also have the option of a Desktop toolbar, but all my icons also appear on the Desktop.

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