Can't find regular toolbar in Internet Explorer

[3kids4me]

When I open up internet explorer, all I get is a Google toolbar, which I hate.

I want the regular toolbar...you know, the one where you can type addresses in? This toolbar never displays the website addresses for any searches...it's really annoying!

I figured out how to hide the google toolbar, but when I do that, then there is no bar at all on the top for typing in web addresses.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!!

Sharon

 

[Pit]

Look under the View menu item. In there you will find Toolbars where you can select "Standard Buttons"

 

[falmouth3]

For some reason, this problem occurs fairly regularly on my work computer. The fix is exactly as described.

Good luck!

 

[Big Matt]

Open a browser window.
Right click and select the tool bars that you want. You should be able to keep or remove the google toolbar and add others.

 

[3kids4me]

Hi and thanks.

I selected "standard buttons" and still no other toolbar comes up....no other box to type addresses into. (In fact, when I remove the check from "Google Toolbar" and check all the others, there is no address box at all.) What am I doing wrong?

P.S. I guess there is a second toolbar above the google one, but it has no address box in it!

 

[Pit]

The address bar is a seperate menu item from the buttons, but it is also under View/Toolbars. Or, maybe you already saw that and still have the problem.

 

[wackymother]

I don't use IE, I'm afraid. Did you look under HELP for "toolbars"? This happens in Firefox occasionally and I always have to look up what I'm supposed to do.

You don't have little arrows at the very side of the screen that are pointing in, do you? If you do, click on them and the toolbar will drop down.

 

[3kids4me]

I don't normally use IE either, but I have this problem with Firefox where it doesn't seem to connect to Adobe, and so anytime I try to open a PDF file, my whole computer locks up. I can open them in IE, so I thought I'd switch to using that for awhile.

Anyway, I found the address box...first I had to add it to the tool bar, and then even when I added it I couldn't see it until I clicked on the word "address" and stretched the address box out....

Maybe I can fix the Adobe problem with Mozilla....

Sharon

 

[wackymother]

Yes, there are some sites that just don't work right with Firefox, and it always takes me a long time to figure out I need to switch to IE. I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes.

 

[Icarus]

Yes, there are some sites that just don't work right with Firefox, and it always takes me a long time to figure out I need to switch to IE. I'm a little slow on the uptake sometimes.

That's not really true anymore.

Sharon,

Personally, I don't like it when pdf files open inside the browser window, so I just turn that off. It's a preference in acrobat reader. Edit/preferences, then select the internet pane and uncheck "Display PDF in browser". Now when you click on a pdf link, it will open in a separate adobe acrobat reader window. If you want the browser integration turned back on, just check that same box again. If it doesn't work after this, you might have another add-on installed that's interfering with it and you'll have to try narrowing them down one by one until you figure out which one it is, by removing all the add-ons, testing it, then adding them back one at a time, testing it each time, until you find the problem add-on.

-David

 

[3kids4me]

Hi David,

I did as you suggested, and now, the only change is that when I click on a PDF file in Mozilla, it asks me what I want to open it with. I click on Adobe Reader...and then the same error message comes up and I'm frozen again. In Internet Explorer, the documents still come up the same way as before so I can still access them fine....

Wouldn't even begin to know how to address "add-ons" but it certainly is frustrating because I've been reading a lot of hearing decisions lately which are all PDF documents and I keep forgetting that I just can't do it in Mozilla....

Sharon

 

[normab]

Have you tried clicking on the arrows? Sometimes the bars get shrunk to the left or right--I know from cleaning up my son's computer!!!

Make sure you can view the address bar in the View/toolbars and then see if there are arrows that are hiding the address box.

good luck, I am no computer genius but playing around always fixes up the screen view!

 

[Icarus]

Hi David,

I did as you suggested, and now, the only change is that when I click on a PDF file in Mozilla, it asks me what I want to open it with. I click on Adobe Reader...and then the same error message comes up and I'm frozen again. In Internet Explorer, the documents still come up the same way as before so I can still access them fine....

Wouldn't even begin to know how to address "add-ons" but it certainly is frustrating because I've been reading a lot of hearing decisions lately which are all PDF documents and I keep forgetting that I just can't do it in Mozilla....

Sharon

In firefox, go to tools/options and click on the content pane. Next to "file types" click on "manage". See if there's a rule there for PDF files. If there is, delete it.

If that doesn't solve it, then try removing and reinstalling acrobat reader.

See if any of that fixes it first.

-David

 

[3kids4me]

Hi David,

Just wanted to come back and thank you. It was working, and now it isn't again...which is bizarre. But I can I can try the same things over again and see what happens!

Sharon