Browser and email tweaks

Rearrange Internet Explorer's toolbars

9/2/99 - Update: This page is specific to Internet Explorer 4. I'll have a section up for ie5 shortly. In the meantime, you can modify ie5's toolbars in a similar fashion, by selecting View | Toolbars | Customize.

You can make make things a little easier and give yourself a _little_ more of that precious browser real-estate.
This is my ie4 toolbar...

There are 3 main modifications here:

1. I moved the button-bar so it's to the right of the menubar.
   In all recent microsoft products, the menu bars are all movable, simply click-and-drag them to your desired location:
   
   
   
   
   
2. I set IE4 to display the small icons instead of the default large-icons:
   
   Simply go to View | Internet Options | Advanced (then scroll down to the bottom) and check Small Icons.
   
   
   
   
3. You can also get rid of the text-labels beneath each icon by unchecking the "text-labels" option under View | Toolbars:
   
   
   

You can also do things like uncheck the "status bar" at the bottom of the screen to give yourself a little more room.

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