{"id":783,"date":"2006-11-02T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/index.php\/?p=783"},"modified":"2006-11-02T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T13:51:03","slug":"customizing-toolbars-in-ie7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2006\/11\/02\/customizing-toolbars-in-ie7\/","title":{"rendered":"Customizing toolbars in IE7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tonyschr\/archive\/2006\/01\/31\/521542.aspx\">Via T.&nbsp;Schreiner<\/a>: In order to bring the menu to the top, you need to adjust or set (if it isn&#8217; there, which, by default, it isn&#8217;t) the following registry key to a DWORD value 1 (00000001): <code>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Toolbar\\WebBrowser]<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enhanceie.com\/ie\/tweaks.asp\">Via enhanceIE.com<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/episteme.arstechnica.com\/eve\/forums\/a\/tpc\/f\/99609816\/m\/111006751831?r=267003661831#267003661831\">via jsalpha2<\/a>): To make the search box disappear, you need to adjust or set <code>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\InfoDelivery\\Restrictions]<\/code> to a DWORD value 1 (00000001). For my SP2 level XP installation, all the keys from <code>Microsoft\\<\/code> onwards had to be created (i.e. the rest of the path wasn&#8217;t there by default).<\/p>\n<p>As for the rest of it&#8230; well, apparently there&#8217;s just no way of removing or even <em>moving<\/em> the other buttons for favorites&#8217; manipulation and so on. (Yes, I know that if you unlock the toolbar, you can push it to the side, but you can&#8217;t chop it off it&#8217;s position and move it to, say, the other side of the tab bar, let alone moving it vertically.)<\/p>\n<p>Wait a minute, you need to <em>tweak the registry<\/em> in order to customize IE7 toolbars to your liking, and even then you don&#8217;t get all that you want?!<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve got to be kidding me.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/ie\/community\/columns\/ie7_toolbar.mspx\">GUI customization in IE7<\/a> is a joke compared to&#8230; well, I guess pretty much any other modern browser. Thank goodness there are better alternatives. (I&#8217;ll skip the clich\u00e9 of linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\">Opera<\/a> her&#8230; d&#8217;oh!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via T.&nbsp;Schreiner: In order to bring the menu to the top, you need to adjust or set (if it isn&#8217; there, which, by default, it isn&#8217;t) the following registry key to a DWORD value 1 (00000001): [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Toolbar\\WebBrowser]. Via enhanceIE.com (via jsalpha2): To make the search box disappear, you need to adjust or set [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Policies\\Microsoft\\Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[30,29,25],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bugsglitches","tag-hacks-tweaks","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}