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Question

How to remove my computer, my document icon from taskbar

Jan 23, 2015 11:41AM PST

Can anybody suggest, how to remove my computer, my document icon from taskbar. Let me give you more details:

* It appears near sistray.
* do not suggest, drag and drop as i tried it.

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Re: icon
Jan 23, 2015 10:38PM PST

- How did you put it there? It's not standard Windows.
- What's a "my computer, my document icon"?
- What do you mean with "near the systray"?
- What OS (I suppose XP, since that's the last OS that used the word "systray").

Kees

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In XP or W7
Jan 23, 2015 11:08PM PST

click the start menu
Right Click the My Computer(XP)/Computer(W7) entry and uncheck the "Show on Desktop" entry

Rinse and repeat for the Documents entry


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