IE 7 History on menu bar?

Installed IE 7 and everything works fine except that I like to have my surfing history shown on the left. It is not on the Explorer bar and can only appear if you click on view Exlorer Bar then History.

It is not on the menu bar list. How can I get it to appear somewhere on a bar so that I can click on it at anytime? And that it stays there until I click on the Full Screen icon. Right now if I have history displayed and click on the full screen icon or x History it does not reappear unless I go through the above process.

I hope the forum understands this problem. In other words, I would like IE 7 to work just like IE 6 did with History on the menu bar.

Thanks for any reply.

 

Thanks for replying. Your method is a way of accessing History. Also it can be accessed by clicking on Tools,Toolbars and then History. I want it to show History when it is not in the full screen mode only. Right now, that is the only way it works.

Perhaps I will have to settle for that. I am not in Classic Mode.

How can I Pin the History to the Tool Bar or Menu Bar and make it work like IE 6?

I am a 73 yr. old retired guy who is not a computer whiz.



Sometimes I think that I understand everything - - - - - - - - - - then I regain conciousness. LOL

 

Sussex138--Control+H will open the History panel directly. If you want to pin it, click the green arrow at the top right of the panel. If you want to open it "pinned" Control+Shift+H.
But I do not think there is a way to get History back on the IE7 Toolbars.


P.S.--

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I have no Toolbars option when I click IE Tools. I do have Toolbars when I click IE View, but no History option.

 

You have to click View then Explorer Bar and then History. Which I have done. (Perhaps you have learned something?)

I would like it to stay there unless I click on full screen and come back after I close full screen. (The - button, upper right). But it doesn't do that.

Whatever, I think I will go eat worms. LOL

 

I meant to say click on tools on the tool bar (lower right). It is accessable that way also.

 

having the same problem

having the same problem you are. thought I was the lone ranger for awhile.
Not too certain I care for this version, IE7 yet. Would sure like to find a solution tho.

 

To J D Pieper

You have my sympathy. Perhaps we will get the problem resolved in this forum (which, by the way is an excellent forum),

 

Yes, but it does not give me full screen without the history when I click on full screen.

Guess I can live with it.

 

everything but the kitchen sink

HI Pete,

I was typing a reply and suddenly lost the whole thing and so doing over. Sure hope I'm not posting 2wice.
OK, What I was saying is, I can see the following items on the tool bar.
File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools and Help. That's it. No History. Which I can live with.

I have an unrelated question but don't know where to go to ask. Having a bit of a problem with FAQs because there isn't anything I can find that relates to what I need to ask. Any advice? Much Thanks.
jdp

 

gosh am I gonna seem dumb but have to ask

don't know what LH and RH stand for. ?? I feel stupid but if I don't ask I won't learn anything.
Thanks very much for screen shot. That does help. May I ask what screen shot software you have? I don't get those kind of results with the one in windows . Did use another free program but it was somewhat complicated.
Thank You Kindly for the help.

 

well, color me embarrassed

of course. LH RH. ! "£ "$%^ Should have realized that.

Trying to get used to IE7. Will check out FastStone and thanks for that.

nuther subject ... newsletter mentions some security updates issued by msft in Nov. I have some but not all. I have auto update on, but find it surprising that I'm missing three. I think they might apply to my system but this is a surprise. Is it safe to just go ahead an install? I'm not certain where the updates get saved to but a box does open and ask where I want it. Normally I'd hit save. Any comment on this? With thanks again.

I wouldn't ask all this as a rule but it came up (for me) for the first time.

 

got it and understood

Right, did that earlier and nothing offered, which is why I was confused.
All clear and taken care of now. Much Thanks again.

Really appreciated. Also, must say that the BBS newsletter is really good as you already know. It did alert me to an upgrade I wasn't aware of that was important.

Cheers .... Have a nice wkend, or what's left of it anyway.

 

Tools on the Toolbar is the default when you install IE7. I got rid of it and several others (Page, Print, Help, etc.) since they seem redundant especially if you restore the old time Menubar. I kept only Mail, RSS and Home. That gives me more space on the Toolbar.
Don't forget what I said in Post #4. "Control+H will open the History panel directly...If you want to open it "pinned" Control+Shift+H "
When pinned, I do not lose the History (or Favorites) panel when I go to full screen. Or when I go from full screen to regular. But I do lose it if it is not pinned.