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Illegal Operation! Fatal Exception!
Error, Error Will Robinson!
Accent on Computers to the rescue! 203-625-7575.
January 25, 2008
Did You Guess Right?
Dear Larry,
Somehow I created a weird toolbar on the side of my Windows desktop? How do I
get rid of it?
R. L.
Dear Larry,
My toolbars in Word have somehow disappeared? What should I do to make them
return?
K. W.
Dear Larry,
My toolbar in Outlook Express went away, and now I can no longer click
Send/Receive when I want to. Is there a way to get it back?
L. E.
Dear R. L., K. W., L. E.,
So, loyal readers. Do you know the answer to these questions? You should!
Remember? You’re staring at something on the screen—an icon, a picture, a
toolbar, a you-name-it—and wondering how to rename it, resize it, format it,
delete it…whatever. Most of the time, the answer is: right-click it.
The right mouse button is the best Windows help there is. Right-clicking an
object in Windows generally pops up a menu of choices that applies to that
particular object. If you consider yourself a right-clicking novice, take your
mouse in hand, and let’s get ready to rumble…err, click. One note of caution
before we begin though: If you accidentally move your mouse while you
right-click, Windows treats that as a “right-click and drag,” which displays a
different pop-up menu. If you don’t see the menu you expect when you
right-click, you probably moved the mouse during the click. If so, try again,
and “steady as she goes.”
How did that toolbar appear on the Windows desktop? That’s actually a feature of
Windows, but many people stumble upon it by accident. Look at the top or far
left of the toolbar. Does it say “My Computer?” You probably dragged the My
Computer icon to the edge of the screen and dropped it there, thus creating this
toolbar. Maybe it reads Documents, which indicates you dragged your Documents
icon to the edge of the screen. In any event, ridding yourself of this toolbar
is just a right click away. Simply right-click a blank area of the toolbar (if
you right-click an icon on the toolbar, you’re asking for help with regard to
that icon, not the entire toolbar). In the pop-up menu that appears, click
Toolbars to see a list of all available toolbars—the check marked items are the
ones on display. I suspect the one you created appears near the end of the list.
Click it (with the left mouse button) to make it go away.
What if the toolbar is missing in action? Then what? Just right-click the blank
area of the screen where the toolbar would normally appear! To restore your
toolbar in Outlook Express, right-click near the top of the window or on the
right side of the menu bar, then left-click Toolbar. In Word, right-click near
the top of the window or on the right side of the menu bar, then click the
toolbar(s) that are missing: I suspect that would either be “Standard” or
“Formatting.”
More often than not, the answer may be right (-click) before your eyes.
This is Larry Schneider, logging off.
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