New bar ? on the left of the desktop

[Legalegl]

My wife was running her computer, probably nudged a few keys and now has this problem. The same thing has happened to me, but I forgot how I repaired it.
Folder tasks, other places and details are the 3 boxes appearing on a large box looking a box like a taskbar which takes up about 1/4 of the screen space on the left hand side and it cannot be manipulated in any way.
The regular taskbar is fine, however on the desktop I cannot move icons around manually as they just slip back to where they were ! I have run Hijack this, avg and ad-aware and have not seen any infections.
She has XP Home Edition, with sp-2 and all updates except sp-3 which removed the agp driver. So I uninstalled sp-3 on it yesterday. It has run fine since.
Anyone with an idea.....thanx

[NooNoo]

Right click on the task bar on a blank bit, click on toolbars - uncheck everything but quick launch.

[Legalegl]

I could not right click on the bar..in fact I could do nothing.
I did find a solution on the internet at www.dougknox.com, it is called a common tasks repair tool. File is xp_rec_con.zip. It cleared it off the desktop after I ran it, logged off and back on. Thank you for your help. Alles van die beste...Daryl

[NooNoo]

That would be my next post if the easy fix didn't work. Doug does some very good stuff.