Customize Your I.E. Toolbar Jan 24, 2001 The image above is a picture of my I.E. 5.5 Toolbar. The gold coloring is something you can do by using a freeware program called I.E Toolbar Beautifier. You can download the program from: I.E Toolbr Beautifier As a special bonus this program also lets you "beautify" the Windows Explorer Toolbar as well. The author even provides a couple dozen jpg background images (you can also use gif or bmp images) to get you started. However I prefer to use IrfanView to cut and save selected pieces of my favorite wallpapers into a collection of jpgs I then try out in I.E. Toolbar Beautifier. After all, I'm bound to get tried of this look at some point in time and I like to have a selection of other looks I can choose from. The program has no help file because its so darn simple that it doesn't need one. So go ahead - download it and have fun. Believe it or not, the above is not what this article is really about - it's just that I thought you may want to know about the neat background image being used in the Toolbar so I told you up front. If you take another look at the Toolbar you will see there is whole lot of stuff squeezed into the first line. I just right clicked on the vertical bar of the address bar and dragged the entire address bar up into the first line and dropped it. You can resize it by grabbing onto same vertical bar again and moving you cursor in a horizontal direction until its' an appropriate size. You can do the same thing to the "toolbar" but you will first have to click on View/Toolbars/Customize and remove any icons from the bar that your do not absolutely need, select small icons and also select no text labels. So now you have gotten rid of two lines from you Toolbar and as a result now have two more lines of viewing area in your main I.E. display screen. Notice the Links bar. You can create sub-folders in your favorites links folder and then drag&drop selected bookmarks into the folders as you surf - this saves having to search through the main favorites folder for a bookmark you use on a regular basis. Of course, you can still have single links in the Links bar as well. Go ahead customize, customize, customize.