No. It is IE7. It seems you have IE6 installed there and maybe IE7 elsewhere. I only have IE7. Maybe you have a beta of IE7 elsewhere but what you are launching is IE6.
Having a choice is always better than not having that choice. IE6 gave me a choice that IE7 does not give me. In that regard IE6 is clearly superior.
I had the same problem.
HATED IE7. I ended up downloading ie7pro ( http://www.ie7pro.com/ )
Worked a treat. Buttons and explorer bar in the right places, great ad blocking, download youtube etc…
Might be worth a try for you too
JFTR, are you familiar with full-screen mode? (Hit F11)
Those of you hating IE7 might want to give IE8 a try. It utilizes space better than IE7 or Firefox and it’s a huge improvement in speed. The accelerators and add-ons make it comparable to Firefox in many ways.
Thanks, I might install it on another computer and give it a try.
Objective may not have been the right word. However, what I was intending to convey is that it was something that sailor was able to point to as a definite issue he didn’t like for a rational reason, and not something that could possibly be regarded as something with which he was unable to cope, simply because it was a change.
Thanks for the help guys. I think I’m going to switch over soon, when I’m not busy at work anymore. I can’t install Firefox here at work, but going directly to IE8 seems like a solution.
So I installed IE8 in one of my computers and now I just wish I could go back because it is even more fucked up. The layout is just as bad as IE7 (How can I get rid of the Live Search window?) and now the background of the menu and other bars is completely black so you cannot read anything. It is just black on black. It really looks like Microsoft just wants me to use Firefox or anything else but IE. Fuck. I should have left things as they were.
After restarting it several times and just generally messing with it the background color of the bars is now the usual grey. But the interface is pretty much the same as IE7 so no improvement there. Oh well.
Not sure why you are having that problem. I unlocked the toolbars, and the Menu and Links bars can move all over the place. After unlocking them, did you grab the vertical bar at the left of the toolbars and try dragging them around? (The Explorer Bar and the Navigation Bar are, however, not movable as far as I’ve been able to see. Maybe those are what you’re talking about?)
Never seen that, but I suspect it would (rightly) be grayed out if there is no browsing history (e.g. after deleting the browsing history).
In the menus, View->Explorer Bar->History, or use the shortcut Ctrl-Shift-H (as shown in the menu), which is a toggle.
Unlock the toolbars and move your Links bar into the blank space next to the menu. That’s where I keep mine, immediately to the right of the Help menu. Gives me room for plenty of quick link buttons. I also customize the Command Bar, eliminating the things I don’t use, to free up more space for tabs on the toolbar below.
My bars pretty much do not move either.
I have no use for the links bar so it is disabled. Other than that I wish I could have it like I had IE6 which is the menu at the top left followed by toolbuttons on the same row, then the address bar on the next line. I hate having the buttons all over the place.
And, BTW, when I installed IE8 I spent quite some time unchecking and disabling all sorts of goodies which MS wanted me to have but which I did not want. I do not want Live this or Live that Or Live BS. I just want a browser.
Ok - just mentioning ie7pro again. It lets you move all sorts of stuff around.
At the moment my configuration is:
Menus top left all by themselves
Google toolbar
Links
Back and forward, History, address bar, refresh, stop, another google search that I have been too lazy to remove.
Favourites, add to favourites, the various tabs and the buttons I find most useful (home, print etc…)
I have ad blocker and flash blocker enabled
Download youtube enabled
And a few other goodies
The best bit of course is the fact it is free.