How to remove "Public" icon from Vista toolbar?

[Mark Conrad]

Any way to remove the "Public" icon from my Vista toolbar?

Right-clicking on that icon does not offer any choice to delete it, or
even hide it for that matter.

Clicking on a blank area of the toolbar offers no option for removing
that "Public" icon.

Darn icon just "popped up" in the toolbar one day, now I can't get rid
of it - - - No big deal, it is just that I prefer to install my own
icons in the toolbar, instead of having the damn OS jam those icons down
my throat, with no way of removing them. grrr


I assume I am calling the toolbar by its correct name, it is that area
in the extreme lower-right corner of my screen.

Mark-

 

[Dave]

The lower right portion of the taskbar is called the Notification Area.

I'm not sure what a "public" icon is, unless it's the network icon?
If you right-click on it, does it show anything?

To change what shows in the Notification Area, right-click on the taskbar,
select Properties, click on the tab for Notification Area.

 

[Mark Conrad]

The lower right portion of the taskbar is called the Notification Area.

Thanks, I am new to Windows, do not know the correct terms yet.

I'm not sure what a "public" icon is, unless it's the network icon?
If you right-click on it, does it show anything?

It says "Desktop" just to the left of the icon, "Public" jist to the
right of the icon.

When I click on it, it displays a window with about six folders, "Public
Pictures", "Public Documents", etc.

To change what shows in the Notification Area, right-click on the taskbar,
select Properties, click on the tab for Notification Area.

Thanks, that did the job, darn icon was not listed in the Notification
Area, but I found it listed in the Toolbar tab.

That removed it, as I desired, thanks again.



Now I gotta figure out why it suddenly popped up in the first place.

Probably Vista's way of trying to help me.<g>

Mark-