How do I remove this?

lemontree

On the left hand side of my desktop, I have an inch wide column that stays on top of whatever I am viewing. A friend who is new to the internet does not know why it appeared when he looked for something. At the top it says click here to begin when touching with mouse pointer. This brings up normal Windows start menu.
I have XP and Firefox.
Thank you.

espresso

lemontree wrote: »

On the left hand side of my desktop, I have an inch wide column that stays on top of whatever I am viewing. A friend who is new to the internet does not know why it appeared when he looked for something. At the top it says click here to begin when touching with mouse pointer. This brings up normal Windows start menu.
I have XP and Firefox.
Thank you.

You don't want to remove it. Presumably if you don't want your Taskbar at the left, just click on it and drag it to the normal position at the bottom of the screen.

Spank

After you've put it where you want, right click in the bar & then left click on "lock the taskbar"