One of the new features in Office 2010 is the ability to upload your files to Office Web Apps.

When you do, an Upload Center icon appears in the Taskbar and helps manage documents.

Here’s how to stop it from showing up.

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It will stay there even after you’re done uploading the document and closed out of all Office apps.

you’re free to use this to monitor and control the documents you’re uploading to the web.

Getting rid of it is fairly simple.

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Right-snag the icon and select tweaks.

After you upload your first document, it will also want to startup with Windows.

you might go into msconfig and disable it from automatically starting up.

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