Where is the location bar in IE?

Where is the location bar in IE with win7?

I pretty much know only XP and earlier.

I guess this has turned into an IE question, but I don't know a
newsgroup for IE10. I hope you don't mind.

I'm working on my brother's computer via Team Viewer, and I wanted to dl
Malwarebytes. He already had two windows of IE open, so I planned to
enter malwarebytes.org in the location box, on the location bar. But
there was none.

Each of his windows have several tabs open. Below the tab bar is a link
bar, and below that is the webpage content.

Above the tab bar is a mostly black area with a little brown, I think
from some picture that's showing through. To the right of that are are
the three little boxes, minimize, normal, and Exit. To the left is
nothing, not even the little box that XP shows.

There is also no menu bar. If there were a menu bar, I'd look in
View/Toolbar and check the location bar, but there is no menu bar.

OKay, I figured out to right click on an empty area, unlock the tool
bar, display the menu bar, and lock the tool bar again (for some
reason?), but there is still no location bar!! ;-) And no unchecked
entry for one.


I finally got around the first problem by starting a new tab which
immediately fllled with MSN or maybe Bing and had a search field, so I
had to search for an address I knew by heart, but anyhow I found the
page and ran MalBAM. (It found 244 things.)

But then I found another page with the MalBAM user manual, and I wanted
to download it to me, not my brother (who will not read it, fwiw). So
I wanted the URL, but there was no location bar!!!!

Where is the location bar?

Thanks.

"micky" wrote in message
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Where is the location bar in IE with win7?

I pretty much know only XP and earlier.

I guess this has turned into an IE question, but I don't know a
newsgroup for IE10. I hope you don't mind.

I'm working on my brother's computer via Team Viewer, and I wanted to dl
Malwarebytes. He already had two windows of IE open, so I planned to
enter malwarebytes.org in the location box, on the location bar. But
there was none.

Each of his windows have several tabs open. Below the tab bar is a link
bar, and below that is the webpage content.

Above the tab bar is a mostly black area with a little brown, I think
from some picture that's showing through. To the right of that are are
the three little boxes, minimize, normal, and Exit. To the left is
nothing, not even the little box that XP shows.

There is also no menu bar. If there were a menu bar, I'd look in
View/Toolbar and check the location bar, but there is no menu bar.

OKay, I figured out to right click on an empty area, unlock the tool
bar, display the menu bar, and lock the tool bar again (for some
reason?), but there is still no location bar!! ;-) And no unchecked
entry for one.


I finally got around the first problem by starting a new tab which
immediately fllled with MSN or maybe Bing and had a search field, so I
had to search for an address I knew by heart, but anyhow I found the
page and ran MalBAM. (It found 244 things.)

But then I found another page with the MalBAM user manual, and I wanted
to download it to me, not my brother (who will not read it, fwiw). So
I wanted the URL, but there was no location bar!!!!

Where is the location bar?



What is a location bar? A search bar perhaps? Since IE10, the address bar is
also the search bar.

Missing the Menu Bar? Press tha Alt key.
--

~Bruce

micky wrote:

Where is the location bar in IE with win7?

I'm working on my brother's computer via Team Viewer, and I wanted to dl
Malwarebytes. He already had two windows of IE open, so I planned to
enter malwarebytes.org in the location box, on the location bar. But
there was none.

Each of his windows have several tabs open. Below the tab bar is a link
bar, and below that is the webpage content.

Above the tab bar is a mostly black area with a little brown, I think
from some picture that's showing through. To the right of that are are
the three little boxes, minimize, normal, and Exit. To the left is
nothing, not even the little box that XP shows.

There is also no menu bar. If there were a menu bar, I'd look in
View/Toolbar and check the location bar, but there is no menu bar.

OKay, I figured out to right click on an empty area, unlock the tool
bar, display the menu bar, and lock the tool bar again (for some
reason?), but there is still no location bar!! ;-) And no unchecked
entry for one.

I finally got around the first problem by starting a new tab which
immediately fllled with MSN or maybe Bing and had a search field, so I
had to search for an address I knew by heart, but anyhow I found the
page and ran MalBAM. (It found 244 things.)

But then I found another page with the MalBAM user manual, and I wanted
to download it to me, not my brother (who will not read it, fwiw). So
I wanted the URL, but there was no location bar!!!!

Perhaps you have IE in fullscreen mode.

Do you have Internet Explorer in fullscreen mode? That will hide the
address bar (aka location bar) until you either move the mouse pointer
to the top of the screen. If you don't like the toolbar rolling off the
top of the screen (and sometimes the mouse pointer at the top of the
screen does not get the toolbar to roll back into view), hit the
Alt-Spacebar to see the control menu and deselect the Auto-Hide option.
Or hit F11 to toggle from/to fullscreen mode.

Perhaps the theme you selected causes a blacked out address bar.

I haven't experienced this problem but an online search on "internet
explorer black toolbar" turns up a common thread that the theme is
causing the problem. If you are running any 3rd party theme manager,
like Stardock's WindowBlinds, then it can cause problems. The cure is
to add an exclusion in WindowBlinds to NOT modify the Windows theme that
IE will use. Is your buddy using the Classic theme in Windows? If he
doesn't have the hardware needed to support the Aero theme then have him
use the Windows 7 Basic theme.

Perhaps the problem is with Team Viewer.

Have your friend look at his own computer to see if the address bar is
shown in Internet Explorer. If he sees it but you don't then the
problem is on your end. Look at the graphics settings in Team Viewer.
Maybe you selected an overly simplified or crippled view of your buddy's
desktop. Maybe you aren't seeing all of the screen for your buddy's
monitor and you have IE maximized so the top part of IE is getting
chopped off in your remove view of his desktop. Hit Ctrl+Spacebar to
get the control menu, hit M (to move the window around), and use the
arrow keys to move the window around, like move it down to see if the
top part of the window was simply out of view.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 20:13:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

micky wrote:

Where is the location bar in IE with win7?

I'm working on my brother's computer via Team Viewer, and I wanted to dl
Malwarebytes. He already had two windows of IE open, so I planned to
enter malwarebytes.org in the location box, on the location bar. But
there was none.

Each of his windows have several tabs open. Below the tab bar is a link
bar, and below that is the webpage content.

Above the tab bar is a mostly black area with a little brown, I think
from some picture that's showing through. To the right of that are are
the three little boxes, minimize, normal, and Exit. To the left is
nothing, not even the little box that XP shows.

There is also no menu bar. If there were a menu bar, I'd look in
View/Toolbar and check the location bar, but there is no menu bar.

OKay, I figured out to right click on an empty area, unlock the tool
bar, display the menu bar, and lock the tool bar again (for some
reason?), but there is still no location bar!! ;-) And no unchecked
entry for one.

I finally got around the first problem by starting a new tab which
immediately fllled with MSN or maybe Bing and had a search field, so I
had to search for an address I knew by heart, but anyhow I found the
page and ran MalBAM. (It found 244 things.)

But then I found another page with the MalBAM user manual, and I wanted
to download it to me, not my brother (who will not read it, fwiw). So
I wanted the URL, but there was no location bar!!!!

Perhaps you have IE in fullscreen mode.

Yes I do.

Do you have Internet Explorer in fullscreen mode? That will hide the
address bar (aka location bar) until you either move the mouse pointer
to the top of the screen. If you don't like the toolbar rolling off the
top of the screen (and sometimes the mouse pointer at the top of the
screen does not get the toolbar to roll back into view), hit the
Alt-Spacebar to see the control menu and deselect the Auto-Hide option.
Or hit F11 to toggle from/to fullscreen mode.

Perhaps the theme you selected causes a blacked out address bar.

It does seem to have a strange theme but it would be my brother or his
teenage son who selected it.

I've read your whole post and I'll remember the content -- thank you --
but this is stil embarrassing. I found the location box, if not the
bar. It was just to the left of all the tabs! I've never seen it
there before. The tabs were several different colors so I didn't think
anything that this one was still another color.

And it was barely any wider than the other tabs, and even that
difference I didn't notice that partly because some items in the task
bar at the bottom were of different widths.

And it was so small and for some other reasons, I couldn't make out what
it said inside, or I might have noticed it was the address for the
webpage that was showing.

By the time I found it and got back here, you both had already posted.

If it helps, I think I got rid of a lot of malware on his computer.

I haven't experienced this problem but an online search on "internet
explorer black toolbar" turns up a common thread that the theme is
causing the problem. If you are running any 3rd party theme manager,
like Stardock's WindowBlinds, then it can cause problems. The cure is
to add an exclusion in WindowBlinds to NOT modify the Windows theme that
IE will use. Is your buddy using the Classic theme in Windows? If he
doesn't have the hardware needed to support the Aero theme then have him
use the Windows 7 Basic theme.

Perhaps the problem is with Team Viewer.

Have your friend look at his own computer to see if the address bar is
shown in Internet Explorer. If he sees it but you don't then the
problem is on your end. Look at the graphics settings in Team Viewer.
Maybe you selected an overly simplified or crippled view of your buddy's
desktop. Maybe you aren't seeing all of the screen for your buddy's
monitor and you have IE maximized so the top part of IE is getting
chopped off in your remove view of his desktop. Hit Ctrl+Spacebar to
get the control menu, hit M (to move the window around), and use the
arrow keys to move the window around, like move it down to see if the
top part of the window was simply out of view.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 20:13:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:


Perhaps you have IE in fullscreen mode.

Do you have Internet Explorer in fullscreen mode? That will hide the
address bar (aka location bar) until you either move the mouse pointer
to the top of the screen. If you don't like the toolbar rolling off the
top of the screen (and sometimes the mouse pointer at the top of the
screen does not get the toolbar to roll back into view), hit the
Alt-Spacebar to see the control menu and deselect the Auto-Hide option.
Or hit F11 to toggle from/to fullscreen mode.

Saying I'm embarrassed isn't really enough.

I'm sorry I posted my question before I had looked more.

I wanted to get done before he came home and went to bed, but still.

"micky" wrote in message
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On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 20:13:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
Perhaps you have IE in fullscreen mode.
Do you have Internet Explorer in fullscreen mode? That will hide the
address bar (aka location bar) until you either move the mouse pointer
to the top of the screen. If you don't like the toolbar rolling off the
top of the screen (and sometimes the mouse pointer at the top of the
screen does not get the toolbar to roll back into view), hit the
Alt-Spacebar to see the control menu and deselect the Auto-Hide option.
Or hit F11 to toggle from/to fullscreen mode.

Saying I'm embarrassed isn't really enough.

I Remember That One
Windows 7 first time open my IE
it gets us all

I'm sorry I posted my question before I had looked more.

It's Ok! News Groups needs Post!
Say you can post any time

I wanted to get done before he came home and went to bed, but still.

Good Job micky
You made it on time right?

micky wrote:

I found the location box, if not the bar. It was just to the left of
all the tabs!ware on his computer.

I don't like the address bar in the same toolbar row as the tabs. It
makes the address bar too small when you have many tabs open. I
configured IE to have the address bar by itself in one toolbar row and
the tabs in another toolbar row.

Right-click on toolbar (empty space), "Show tabs on a separate row".
Before you change the layout, ask your bro if he also wants it that way.

On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 22:57:17 -0400, micky wrote:

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 20:13:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:


Perhaps you have IE in fullscreen mode.

Do you have Internet Explorer in fullscreen mode? That will hide the
address bar (aka location bar) until you either move the mouse pointer
to the top of the screen. If you don't like the toolbar rolling off the
top of the screen (and sometimes the mouse pointer at the top of the
screen does not get the toolbar to roll back into view), hit the
Alt-Spacebar to see the control menu and deselect the Auto-Hide option.
Or hit F11 to toggle from/to fullscreen mode.

Saying I'm embarrassed isn't really enough.

I'm sorry I posted my question before I had looked more.

I wanted to get done before he came home and went to bed, but still.

We could have a competition for stupid mistakes that we shouldn't have
made, and you might not even win :-)

"My mistake was dumber than yours - nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!".

Please don't be embarrassed. Oh, OK, maybe just a little...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

micky wrote:

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 20:13:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:


Perhaps you have IE in fullscreen mode.

Do you have Internet Explorer in fullscreen mode? That will hide the
address bar (aka location bar) until you either move the mouse pointer
to the top of the screen. If you don't like the toolbar rolling off the
top of the screen (and sometimes the mouse pointer at the top of the
screen does not get the toolbar to roll back into view), hit the
Alt-Spacebar to see the control menu and deselect the Auto-Hide option.
Or hit F11 to toggle from/to fullscreen mode.

Saying I'm embarrassed isn't really enough.

I'm sorry I posted my question before I had looked more.

I wanted to get done before he came home and went to bed, but still.

I helped a buddy build his house. On arrival, he put his keys atop the
switchbox for the lights so he'd know where they were. He didn't tell
me this. We had a lot of crawling work to do that day and he didn't
want to lay atop his massive set of keys in his pocket. When done for
the day, we spent an hour looking for his keys so he could lock the
outside doors. Couldn't find the keys. As we walked out, he reached to
switch off the lights and found his keys. DOH!

I was hunting around for my eyeglasses. Looked everywhere. Went to
scratch my head and there they were atop my head where I put them. DOH!

Hi, Vanguard.

Our country high school was so small (21 in my graduating class) that our
Superintendent had to teach some classes, too, including American History.
Many times, as the class time was ending, we would see him searching himself
for...something. We could barely keep from laughing because we knew he was
searching for his eyeglasses - and we all could clearly see them on top of
his head. ;)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3528.0331) in Win8.1 Pro with Media
Center


"VanguardLH" wrote in message ...

micky wrote:

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 20:13:53 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:


Perhaps you have IE in fullscreen mode.

Do you have Internet Explorer in fullscreen mode? That will hide the
address bar (aka location bar) until you either move the mouse pointer
to the top of the screen. If you don't like the toolbar rolling off the
top of the screen (and sometimes the mouse pointer at the top of the
screen does not get the toolbar to roll back into view), hit the
Alt-Spacebar to see the control menu and deselect the Auto-Hide option.
Or hit F11 to toggle from/to fullscreen mode.

Saying I'm embarrassed isn't really enough.

I'm sorry I posted my question before I had looked more.

I wanted to get done before he came home and went to bed, but still.

I helped a buddy build his house. On arrival, he put his keys atop the
switchbox for the lights so he'd know where they were. He didn't tell
me this. We had a lot of crawling work to do that day and he didn't
want to lay atop his massive set of keys in his pocket. When done for
the day, we spent an hour looking for his keys so he could lock the
outside doors. Couldn't find the keys. As we walked out, he reached to
switch off the lights and found his keys. DOH!

I was hunting around for my eyeglasses. Looked everywhere. Went to
scratch my head and there they were atop my head where I put them. DOH!

On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:17:42 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:


I was hunting around for my eyeglasses. Looked everywhere. Went to
scratch my head and there they were atop my head where I put them. DOH!



Double DOH!

I've done that more than once g

On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:23:36 -0500, "R. C. White"
wrote:

Hi, Vanguard.

Our country high school was so small (21 in my graduating class) that our
Superintendent had to teach some classes, too, including American History.
Many times, as the class time was ending, we would see him searching himself
for...something. We could barely keep from laughing because we knew he was
searching for his eyeglasses - and we all could clearly see them on top of
his head. ;)


But, but, but...

.... I'm old, but not old enough to have been your superintendent.

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 23:25:51 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

micky wrote:

I found the location box, if not the bar. It was just to the left of
all the tabs!ware on his computer.

I don't like the address bar in the same toolbar row as the tabs. It
makes the address bar too small when you have many tabs open. I
configured IE to have the address bar by itself in one toolbar row and
the tabs in another toolbar row.

Right-click on toolbar (empty space), "Show tabs on a separate row".

Wow, that's great. I didn't see that, but I wasn't looking. Thanks.

Before you change the layout, ask your bro if he also wants it that way.

You're right. I'll ask him. I would certainly like it better that way,
like it is in XP, like God intended.

On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 17:38:31 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 15:17:42 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

I was hunting around for my eyeglasses. Looked everywhere. Went to
scratch my head and there they were atop my head where I put them. DOH!

Double DOH!

I've done that more than once g

I've never done that. Never.

But that might be a result of never parking my glasses on top of my
head...

I do have a trick, though. On leaving my computer I'll take off my
computer glasses and put on the regular ones, and then find that I can't
see well.

Yeah, it's no doubt obvious - I had already swapped them and forgot that
I did.

The idle ones sit in a slipcase in my shirt pocket, which is what saves
my head from the other problem.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)