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Xp...windows tool bar----the one with start on the bottom left...icons on lower right....for some reason is now up and down long my left side. Sigh.

I have even re-booted. Gone to all kinds of areas in the control panel.

I have checked out all kinds of stuff and can not get it back along the bottom of screen. If you could point me in the right direction I would so be over joyed. lol
 

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grab it with the mouse, click and hold, drag it down to the bottom
 

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Nope...that wasn't it......but good idea.
 

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Woot....but when I unlocked it...it worked. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

<<<<<< goes leaping off .....
 

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no worries, anything i know is because i fell in that same hole before
 

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My students sometimes like to pull that stunt... the other one they like is to set the task bar to auto-hide. So, unless you're mousing around it, the task bar slides off the screen, invisible.
 

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i used to put a program called 'deep-freeze' on systems of clients who did things like that, many of the libraries and such use it as it reverts the desktop and windows applications back to their original state set upon reboot
 

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i used to put a program called 'deep-freeze' on systems of clients who did things like that, many of the libraries and such use it as it reverts the desktop and windows applications back to their original state set upon reboot

This year we got Windows SteadyState, which does pretty much the same thing... and it's free. It helps.

Though I'm a little disappointed-- none of my pranksters are bright enough to put tape over the optical mouse, rendering it unresponsive. Kids these days!
 

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I moved from Deep Freeze and Driveshield to Windows Steady State for my "Alternative Learning Centers". Free and effective are a pretty powerful lure.

The tape idea is a funny one. I haven't seen that one, oddly. Some of my kids like to loosen the connections for their teacher's keyboards or mice and watch the frustration.
 

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One thing you can do, as a practical joke, is, when someone goes away from the puter, let's say they go to lunch. . .you can take all their icons, drag and drop them into one new folder you've created, and then click on properties of that folder, and make it invisible. It freaks them out big time, and it's an easy fix to put it back the way it was.
My co-worker was frantic. LOL