Thanks for your time. I will try to describe it better:
It all involves the whole taskbar at the bottom of the desktop screen, with
the "Start" button on the furthest left hand side and the clock &
notification on the furthest right. Next to the "start" buttom is the "Quick
Launch" toolbar which we can make wider/narrower by dragging the end mark
left/right. Then normally the next toolbar is another notification bar
showing what windows I have opened. This is still here but has been budged
right. Now between the "Quick Launch" and the "Windows notification" bar is
an empty bar (bordered by those end marks also).
When I right click over this empty bar, as it has no icons in it, the
dropdown menu with Toolbars; Cascade Windows; Tile Windows; etc, comes up.
When I click on the "Toolbars" selection, the choices are: Address; Windows
Media Player; Links; Language Bar; Desktop; Quick Launch; New Toolbars.
There is only one tick next to "Quick Launch", there is no other toolbars
checked so I don't think I can remove this empty bar the easy way from here.
I can make this empty bar wider/thinner by dragging the end marks just like
for "Quick launch" bar. But the thinnest it will get is about 2 inches and
it takes up space on my overal taskbar which is annoying. Nothing seems to
come up on it using my usual programs so I don't know if it was put there by
a software on my computer either. It just seems to be another "Quick Launch"
bar with no icons (and purpose).
I don't think it's a virus as I have the latest viral scans and I never open
attachments from unknown and unexpected sources.
Hope someone out there has seen this before and able to give me a solution
to rid it.
Thanks...
Park
OK, thats' what I was picturing - but just needed to make sure.
This'll all be conjecture and testing, but ...
Try to drag an icon into the "ghost" toolbar from the desktop. Can you
add icons to it like you add icons to Quick Launch?
Close the QL toolbar - does it disappear then? If so, does it come
back when you (re) open the QL toolbar?
What happens when you also open other toolbars (Desktop, Links,
whatever)
When you right click on the tasbar, and go to Toolbars, are there any
blank lines in the list of available Toolbars ('though I s'pose this
would've come up earlier, if there had been ... sorry for the obvious)
Click on the top of the Taskbar and drag up - make the Tasbar 2x, 3x,
4x it's height. Click and drag the Toolbars and re-arrange them - can
you do the same with the "ghost"?
I'm not sure what I'm looking for here, but something might come out
of it .....
Luck.