Tuesday, September 11, 2007

GeekByte: Show Menu Bars in Internet Explorer 7

The new Internet Explorer is great! It has that handy feature of tabbed browsing that will really make your life easier. One thing that drives me nuts about it is that when you first install it, your menu bar is gone. The menu bar contains File, Edit, View, Favorites, etc. I like these menus visible since it’s really easy to get to the settings and options for various IE components.

Never fear, getting those menus back is easy! One way is to right click in a blank grey area below the address bar and choose Menu Bar. (The address bar is where you type in the web addresses that you want to go to.)

Alternatively, if the Tools button is below the address bar in your IE window, you can click on it and choose Menu Bar.

As a side note, if you aren’t sure what version of IE you have, it’s simple to find out. Just open IE click on the Help menu. Choose “About Internet Explorer.” This procedure is the same for most any Microsoft program if you need to find out what version of that program you have installed. Yep, it’s that easy.

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