Paul Kimbrel's Musing

Well, I just took the plunge on IE7.  I just wanted to get rid of the yellow shield on my system tray, really.  Well, it’s all slick looking I guess and I’m sure those tabs a gas for people who like tabs (not I).  But the address bar really bugged me.

Why, oh why?

Every application with a menu bar since the cave man first clicked “start” has been at the top of the window.  EVERY ONE!  Why, all of the sudden, is the address bar at the top?  What sort of innovation is that??  Well, poop on it.  I want my menu on top.

Well, I did a bit of Googling  (as I’m sure you did if you’re reading this) and I found how to move the menu up.  Well, actually, move the address bar down.  6 of one…

If you’ve never used “regedit” or you don’t know anything about your registry, get used the menu bar where its.  Don’t do this.  Please.  And don’t blame me if you screw it up…

First - close all your IE sessions.

Then go into your registry editor (”Start->Run” and type “regedit” and hit enter - but I’m sure you know that).  Dive down into the HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ InternetExplorer \ Toolbar \ WebBrowser key.  Right click on the right hand side (where the keys are) and add a new “DWORD” key.  Call it “ITBar7Position” and give it a value of “1″.

That’s it!  Now, this isn’t perfect.  I also had the Google toolbar for IE and the address bar wound up ABOVE it (rather than below it).  Sheesh.  Why they couldn’t just make the address bar a toolbar like it was in IE6, I’ll never know.