Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 display the menu bar below the address bar in the header area of the web browser. The menu bar contains links to menus like File, Tools or Help while the address bar is being used to load websites and perform searches on the Internet.
Most web browsers use a different display of toolbars with the menu bar on top and the address bar below which is also the default display in all windows and applications in the Windows operating system. There is however no option to customize Internet Explorer toolbars in the browser itself.
The only way to change the location of the Internet Explorer Toolbar is to edit the Windows Registry. To do that press [Windows R], type [regedit] and hit [enter].
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After:
Navigate to the following Registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser
Add a new DWord by right-clicking in the left panel of the Registry and selecting New > DWord Value. Name the new Registry key ITBar7Position. Double-click it afterwards and give it the value 1.
Restart Internet Explorer afterwards and you should see that the Internet Explorer Toolbars have been exchanged. The menu toolbar should now be on top and the address toolbar below.
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Thanks Martin not only a cristal clear explanation, but also now my MS int.explorer looks great/ much better. The only thing is that actually i would realy like, to have the menu bar and also the address bar on the same line.
And also i would like this possibility for main standard brouwser, namley Firefox. Is this possible? Do you know a app/link? I have looked and maybay i looked with main nose, but i can not find one.
Great! Now,is there a way to put the refresh/stop buttons over by the back/forward ones instead of half a screen apart, the way MS locked them in? And, any way to remove the (to me) useless takes-up-valuable-screen-space bar below the ‘links’ bar? (I’m guessing the links bar can be deselected) Have installed and uninstalled IE7 twice. Just can’t stand the layout and the fact that I can’t move sturf around where I want it. If I wanted to do things only the way the Company wanted, I’d have bought a mac.
Back when I was just a naive youngster (55) I used Internet Explorer. I wish then I had known about these Chinese clones.
http://www.ioage.com/
Another one is
http://www.maxthon.com/
I perfer the first one best.
Its good
“Just can’t stand the layout and the fact that I can’t move sturf around where I want it. If I wanted to do things only the way the Company wanted, I’d have bought a mac.”
My impression exactly. I’m trying it out, but right away, I can’t customize the bars like I used to be able to in IE6. They knew this was an issue, but have not really given the controls back to us that they took away.
Fix it or lose market share. Firefox is totally customizable thank you.