Hi Lisa,
IE is integrated into the system, you can't remove it even if you want to.
The quicklaunch icon is just a shortcut like any other and is safe to
remove.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts
http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
"hamiltoncruiser" <> wrote in message
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>I use Mozilla FF but I know that ocassionally I need IE.
>
> When I tried to delete the icon from Quick Launch tolbar, I didn't get
> the familiar message saying that
> "you're deleting a shortcut, to delete the program, use Add/Remove"
> when I hit delete, I get :"are you sure you want to remove this file
> to recycle bin?"
>
> I don't want to remove IE from the laptop, just the IE icon from Quick
> Launch toolbar.
>
> ...Lisa
>