Owner End Process with the task manager only "Ends Process" during that sesssion. Upon rebooting all your processes are back ... even "End Process" ed ones. Microsoft Word does not belong in my Task Bar. It uses 55% of CPU upon start up. No wonder we were gettin' hot. How do I get it out of my Task Bar? and How did it get in there? Owner 'End Process' es are fairly benign and most gamers turn them of except the task bar itself and IE while playing, its even on the directions of most PC games...for enhancesd performance... etc. The entire word program is running!!...55% of a 3.2GHz CPU (certainly isn't the fastest) at startup is going to word without me turning it on, that is ridiculous! marf

that toolbar is called the bookmarks toolbar, it can accidentally removed when you are adjusting the chrome as you were, when you click on view then toolbars at the top it has the various toolbars listed there if you want it to show it must have a check mark in front of it if you remove the checkmark the toolbar will disappear until you again put a check mark there in front of it in that list. crabbypatty I have done several postings with firefox tips and tricks you can do a search here for them and likely find then or do a search on my name. However this link does lead to several good links of tips and tricks. Ultimate List of Firefox 3 Tips and Tricks Power User's Guide to Firefox 3 Combine Toolbars to Streamline Firefox Geek to Live: Consolidate Firefox's chrome those should give you a starting point

I already tried what you said with no luck. I googled it & found the fix. I went to support microsoft fix it & downloaded the fix it thing to reset the tool bar to default location & it worked. Thanks for the help though, you all are always so fast & helpful here. Terri

sorry I am late getting here but see you got your answer so that is good. Yes you really do need to put ad block plus and the easy list on your firefox since you already use firefox. Just go here to the ad block plus and click add to firefox you will then have to shut down firefox and restart then go here and under easylist click where it says add to adblock plus to add the easylist subscription then it is a good idea to restart firefox one more time. Adblock Plus 1.3.3 then this EasyList