Changing The Toolbar

I install IE Beta 7. I am already seeing the old faithful IE as encountered an error and must close, but the question I have right now and I am sure I am just overlooking it is I can't rearrange the toolbars at the top when it is unlocked. Maybe I should say the top and bottom bars, which are the one at the top that have the the forward and back arrows and the bottom one the starts with star (favorites). Unlike IE6 these toolbars seem to be locked. Surely I am missing something here. Any help.

Thanks,
Bob

 

bmartin--Hovering the cursor over the various parts of the toolbar (especially the horizontal line between the two toolbars and the little vertical Separator dotted lines within each Toolbar) does not produce a two-headed arrow which can be dragged to move the toolbars around?

 

Welshjim, I agree with everything you said, but that is the problem nothing happen on the two toolbars I described in the browser page I'm using, go figure. Maybe that is why it's a beta version. I'm not sure what is going on with it.

Bob

 

bmartin--Sorry to hear that. IE7 seems to affect different PC's differently.
Have a look at this thread
http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=51498&highlight=IE7
At worst you can uninstall it.

 

I don't think you can move the top or the bottom one. If you add a toolbar like the Google toolbar or links bar, they will be put in the middle. You can move them up or down in the middle but not to the top or the bottom. At least that was my experience when I had it installed.

 

Zander, I think you are right. I know this is a minor issue and maybe not an issue at all fof some, but it is with me. Oh well I will keep using IE6 or Firefox and report it MS as a bug to me.

Thanks

 

Well, I wasn't crazy about it either but I could live with it. The only thing about it that really bugged me was when you added the menu bar it would be placed in the middle with no way that I could see to put it at the top. If given the option, I'd prefer it at the top of the window. I didn't like it taking up space on the links or Google toolbars. It seems to me I could seperate it from them (I think anyway) but then it sits there in the middled with file, edit,etc. and then a big blank space to the right that's good for nothing.

I could live with it though I guess. In my case it's probably just a matter of what I'm used to. Given enough time, I suppose I'd get used to it this way eventually.

 

I asked a contact at Microsoft about this. His response
"I confirm that the top and bottom bars don’t move but the middle bars do. I guess you could argue that those aren’t actually toolbars. The behavior of the top toolbar if you double-click or right-click an empty area is that of a title bar so you could argue it is part of the title bar. The bottom bar is the Explorer bar and not part of the toolbar set that you can hide or manipulate. All the other "toolbars" you can be manipulated. "

 

Well that says it all, but I like to arrange the top bars were I want them. IE6 permits or lets me put the bars were I want them so unless there is a very good reason for IE7 not to allow it other than what was told to you I won't be using IE7 Beta or otherwise.

Thanks for the info.

Bob