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Strange immovable icon on desktop
Suddenly a strange icon has appeared on the upper left of the desktop of my Surface. It's immovable, floats over all windows, and interferes with pretty well darn near everything I want to do (produce documents & deal with other paperwork about 98% of the time). There is no right-click information, in fact no information of any sort -- left-click, right-click, hover tip, nada. Sorry I don't have screenshot capabilities yet: the icon is black with a sort of grayish tube and small white rectangle at the bottom of the tube. I can slide the white doodad up and down and see a percentage but it bounces right back to the bottom.
I would think it's telling my the pen battery is low -- except that I checked the battery and it's nearly to the top on both testers(1.3 in voltmeter type, 3/4 toward top of "green" in the range tester; both have proven reliable on other sizes of battery). The contacts are clean and shiny.
1. Why did this immovable monster appear?
2. What's with whoever designed it creating an immovable impenetrable in my face mess anyway?
3. What do I have to do to get rid of it?
4. Is there anything I can do to make it so I never see it again if I do manage to get rid of it?
TIA
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