Sounds like you made a custom tool bar on the Taskbar. Take any folder, or 
make a new one. Then put shortcuts into it. Now put your mouse cursor over 
the taskbar, right click >>> Toolbars >>> New Tool bar .... and browse to 
your chosen folder. It will now appear on the task bar. You can leave it in 
a scroll mode, or open it up and spread it out so it works like Windows 
<Quick Launch>, which is just another taskbar tool bar.

You can also accomplish the same thing by dragging any folder to the 
taskbar, and dropping it. This is probably what you inadvertently did. But 
be careful about doing it this way as you can end up with huge unmanageable 
tool bars.

Rode
The NOSPIN Group
http://www.freepctech.com/rode/

At 02:07 PM 1/29/2006, you wrote:
>I don't know how I did this but I like it!
>I put a shortcut icon to my recipe files on my desktop (Windows 
>XP).  Somehow, on the right side of the task bar, the word Recipes 
>appeared with some arrows. When I click on the arrows, a list of my 
>recipes folders appear, where I can access them. Also, there is a vertical 
>line after the word Recipes on the task bar. When I click on this, it 
>takes me directly to the file, Recipes, that is under My Documents. I 
>really like it there but I would like to know how I did it, in case I 
>accidentally lose it. I hope I explained this well enough for anyone to 
>understand. Thanks for your help.

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