computer help
 

When i booted up today a blue bar has appeared down the left hand side of my screen pushing my desktop and icons across some going off the screen

It say "folder tasks" at the top then "other places" and "details" i can't work out how to get rid of it there is no cross to click on or anything Windows help was useless ??
right clicking is no good either

any ideas

Running XP and iE6

Sounds a bit like the "Microsoft Office" toolbar I have on my work PC! If you right click on it do you get the option to turn it off?

no computer expert myself and unless it's staring me in the face not a clue! have you altered the screen resolution in your control panel lately??? if not have you tried Ctrl/Alt/Del and see if any programs are running in the background??? Esc route??? when you reboot and it appears is there at the bottom of the screen a Y/N? . Have you been in msconfig and altered anything without rebooting??? BIOS??? etc etc did you have your beer goggles on when you booted it ?? have you tried on switch on the F2/8??? button to access BIOS and use windows safe mode??? or other ! sorry mate not a clue just trying to remember all the **** i've been thru with mine in the past , taken me 3 years to get logged on the dsc properly and i'll be fooked if i'm gonna log off ! best of luck and give them pipes a polish b4 you send em off !