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in ie6 I have one line at the top with the file menu and address bar, with

ie7 i was forced (before uninstallation) to have 3 times the screen clutter,

absolutely unacceptable to have a large grey bar at the top of the screen, if

I wanted firefox I would use it, I called customer support and was helped to

uninstall ie7, they could not help me correct the problems with the

interface, please release a version which DECREASES screen clutter.. thanks!





p.s. very, very funny that the main advertised benefit of ie7 is decreased

screen clutter, when actually the exact opposite is true!


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"Steve" <Steve@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

I agree. This way takes up too much screen space.



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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM

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Answer in newsgroup. Don't send mail.





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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:



I had an extra bar at first (can't remember exact configuration) and

had no idea how to remove it, but one day when I started IE7, I ended

up with this compact 3-row layout:



TOP ROW:

Back/Forward arrows + URL address box + Refresh/Stop (buttons) +

generic IE search box



MIDDLE ROW:

File/Edit/View/Favorites/Tools/Help (menu) + Google Toolbar



BOTTOM ROW:

Favorites (yellow star buttons) + Tabs area +

Home/Cut/Copy/Paste/Font-size/Full-screen (buttons)



I don't know how it ended up that way but I'm fine with the space. It's

possible that only that or similar layouts will remove extra gray bars,

etc..



Brad



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Enhance IE 7 Toolbar - These are UI tweaks that may help in customizing to

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Pat





"bac6567@yahoo.com" wrote:

Since all menu items are available elsewhere in the UI, you don't really need

to have the menu bar displayed. It doesn't take long to find the menu items

because they are logically placed (History under Back/Forward dropdown, Find

on This Page under Search dropdown, etc). You can also go into full screen

mode and then right-click on the navigation bar and tick or untick Auto-Hide

to your liking. Doing this hides the title bar and menu bar, which saves a

lot of space and makes IE7 take up the less space than IE6 (except when IE6

is in full screen mode). If only the taskbar would auto-unhide so I didn't

have to keep pressing the Windows key, this view would work well.



"Steve" wrote: