Re: IE dehanced?

On Feb 24, 1:15 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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davegb wrote:
I'm using IE for a while, trying it out. I haven't used it in a long
time, and I'm finding that other than tabbed browsing, it's far less
user friendly than it used to be. I've searched for options to fix
these things, but haven't found most of what I need. Maybe some of
you more experienced users know fixes?

When I open web pages from my launcher, they come up in a new window
instead of a new tab. I've set IE to open new web pages from other
programs in a new tab, but this doesn't seem to work. Is it my
launcher (Executor) or is it IE?

What is your 'launcher'?

Thanks for your reply. My launcher is "Executor".

No refresh button anymore? I have to F5 or use the menu? Can't find
one if it's there. Looked under "Customize" and everywhere else I
can think of.

Look to the right of where you type the URL in at.  See the two green
arrows?
Holy cow! Never thought to look up there. Thanks.

Most frustrating of all, the toolbar itself. The button to add a tab
is a blank button. The icon only shows up if I hover over it! What
good is that?

I'm not sure what you mean.

Are you complaining because there is no icon there that says "Click here to
open a new tab"?  You know where to click - do you need a pretty icon there
as well?  After all - you have to 'hover' over it to click it...

I understand that, and as long as that's the only icon in that area,
that's ok. But if I ever figure out how to use all that waste space
between the New Tab icon and the Status bar, then there would be more
icons and I'd like to know which is which. What does hiding the icon
accomplish anyway?


And the status bar toolbar is way over to the right,
with no apparent way to drag the toolbar over to the left, into the
huge gap of wasted space in the center of the toolbar area!! What
are they thinking?

"Status toolbar"?  What are you referring to as the status toolbar?

The one MS calls the "Status Bar".


Just about everything at the top of the Internet Explorer window can be
moved around if unlocked.

Are you speaking of the bottom?

Bottom? No, I'm talking up above the main window, to the right of the
New Tabs icon. A lot of blank real estate where I'd like to put more
icons for the things I do freqently, like I did in Mozilla Firefox.

Even if this is correctable, it's unthinkable! You used to be able
to drag toolbars to where you wanted them, either in the toolbar
area or even undock them, if you liked. I never liked floating
toolbars myself, but right now, they're looking better than ever.
At least we had some control of where they were!

If you are talking about the top - you still can.  Right-click and unlock
it.  That was also a feature in IE6 - to lock and unlock the toolbar areas.

Already did that. They're unlocked, but can only be dragged a short
way over to the left, leaving that big "hole" in that bar, where I'd
like to put other stuff.

If anyone has any ideas to get IE usable again, I'd appreciate it
very much.

Did you try the built in help or a Google search?

--
Shenan Stanley
     MS-MVP
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I appreciate the help. I'm just very frustrated with all M$ products
lately, Seems to me that they're just playing a shell game with their
users. They move things for no apparent reason. Are the recycle and
stop buttons easier to use in the middle of the bar than over on the
left, where they've always been, where all experienced users expect to
see them? Seems to me that Bill and Steve are just making changes to
justify making us all go out and plunk down ever increasing amounts of
cash to get "upgraded" software that's harder to use than the old one.
I call these "dehancements" or "deprovements". Well, I guess Bill's
trying to get back up to that $100B mark he fell below in 2000. Poor
guy.
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