Help me configure IE7!

Factual Questions
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My employer has just purchased new computer terminals, and switched us from IE 6.0 to IE 7.0. As I’m a Firefox junkie, there are a number of things I don’t know how to do.

One, how do I move bookmarks from one computer, running IE6, to another, running IE7?

Two, what’s up with the toolbars in IE7 being all garbage? First of all, the “Menu Toolbar,” the familiar “File, Edit, View…” one, cannot be moved to above the address bar. As a matter of fact, the address bar cannot be moved at all! Neither, for that matter, can the “Command Bar” be moved, removed, or modified in any fashion. The completely useless and redundant command bar sits immediately above the page window, and as I’ve disabled tabbed browsing, it’s the only thing on the entire line. Note that taskbars are unlocked, and the Menu Bar can be moved, but it cannot be placed on the top bar or the bottom bar, both of which seem to be immutable. This is nonsense. What’s going on?

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  1. Moving the bookmarks from one computer to the other is fairly simple - use Windows Explorer to navigate to \Documents and Settings[your user name]\Favorites and you’ll see them all listed there - just copy that lot to a USB memory stick or a floppy, or whatever, and put them in the equivalent place on the other machine.

  2. Can’t help you on that - I think the IE7 menu/toolbar interface is simply atrocious - it’s an ugly pudding of controls sized, designed and positioned apparently at random - and it was the final reason I switched completely to Firefox for everyday browsing.

3

Go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Remove Windows Components -> un-check Internet Explorer = Happy Days :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

4

I’m not sure that will work - certainly it’s possible to roll IE7 back, if it was installed over the top of IE6 - but it’s not as simple as that .

But in any case, this sounds like one of those situations where the employer would take a dim view of such action (if it’s even possible within the scope of their user policies).

5

T’was said purely in jest.