Problem with My Pictures on Desktop

[patti]

Not sure how I did this but My Pictures is now covering up the left hand side of my screen. Is there a way to get rid of this? Thank you.

 

[Elizabeth23]

First, insure your system is clean, do the following and also what is your current antivirus??

Download, install, update and do full scan with these free malware detection programs:

Malwarebytes Free (MBAM): http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/

Remove all found, reboot, and run again until scans run clean, program can be removed afterwards if you so choose. Run scans one at a time, please.


Second, try a system restore in safe mode to a point before this issue

 

[Rhino Cracker]

I think you have simply created a new toolbar by dragging something from your taskbar to the left of your screen by accident.
To remove it: rightclick on it --> toolbar --> uncheck "my pictures" and it should be gone.
(maybe the option isn't called "toolbar", I've got a german windows where it's called "symbolleiste" which is being translated to "toolbar"^^)

 

[patti]

Thank you both. I will try the suggestions.

 

[patti]

It was a shortcut. Thank you for the advice. But also ran a virus scan to be on the safe side.