Windows 10: How do I delete a Task Bar item?

My task bar contains "Nelson 877-869-4666." How can I delete this?

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Cannot delete some items from favs. bar.

Hello,

As you are facing issues with deleting the items from Favorites on Internet Explorer, we will help you with this issue.

I suggest you to try the below steps to delete the favorites items if not yet tried and check if it helps.

• Open Internet Explorer, click on Favorites
  in the Menu bar.
• Click on the drop down arrow beside Add to favorites.
• Click on Organize favorites..., click on the option
  Delete. (This will delete all the favorites items in the Favorites bar)

If you don't want to delete all the items from the Favorites bar, I suggest you to refer to the below Microsoft help article to delete the browsing history and check if it helps.

View and delete your browsing history

Refer to the section: What gets deleted when you delete your browsing history
for more information about how deleting the browsing history works.

For more information about favorites in Internet Explorer refer to: Use favorites to save websites you like

Hope it helps. Get back to us for further assistance on this issue. We will be happy to help you.

Thank you.

 

How to delete items from Favorites Bar in IE11

OK, I don't know is this is a permanent fix, but it has held through a couple of restarts. Using a variation of something others have suggested, this is what I did:

• Right click on the entry to be deleted from the IE Favorites Bar and select Properties.
• In the General tab, uncheck Read-only.
• Close this window and then delete the item.

Does it make sense to anyone that this should work i.e. permanently delete the Favorites Bar entry, rather than trying to delete with
Read-only checked, where the items keep reappearing?

Thanks. . .

 

Show or hide Recent Items on the Start Menu/Task Bar

Hi,

On previous versions of Windows, we would be able to hide recent items from the start menu and the task bar. I am trying to hide recent items on the task bar, but the option is no longer there. Can anyone help?

To clarify, what I mean by recent items are the list of files recently opened using a specific program. For example, if I right click on Visual Studio on my task bar, I get a list of all the apps I've been working on. I don't want these to display.