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9/5/2007

Fixing the position of the toolbar in IE 7

September 05th 2007 Posted to Windows

I don’t know about you, but I prefer the look of IE 6 over IE 7. The IE 7 toolbar icons look more toyish to me, but what really annoys me is the new toolbar position, above the menu bar. Maybe I’m being anal (I’d say purist), but I like my menu bars on top of my toolbars.

Surprisingly, you can’t drag the toolbar around and there’s no obvious setting in the UI to change the behavior.

But I did stumble upon a registry setting that puts the toolbar in a more agreeable position.

Download this sucker and double-click it to merge it with your registry and then restart IE:

http://marc.abramowitz.info/download/windows/IE7BarPosition.reg

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