This LINK seems similar to your issue.
Tom
I went into control panel clicked on task bar and start menue. Next I clicked on no title clicked on hide when inactive and changed to always hide. That go rid of both however in control panel I still can't open add hardware it says that it is currently loading harware when I'm Not.
can any one help me plz

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