Office 2013 Apps and "Phantom" Windows in Taskbar

After uninstalling Office 2010 and installing Office 2013, all of the Office applications are showing multiple windows in the taskbar for opened context menus in the app.  I thought it had something to do w/ Visual C++ runtime conflicts having 2008
and 2010 installed, so I uninstalled everything but C++ 2010 Redistributable to no avail.
Windows 7
Office 2013 RTM

Hi,
Try the following steps to check:
Kill the explorer.exe
Rename this registry key to remove the registry values that store the pinned icon references.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Taskband
Rename this folder that stores the cached shortcuts for pinned items (otherwise repinning will result in shorcuts with names like "Outlook (2)"):                                                                                     
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar
Restart explorer.exe and there should be nothing pinned.
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