Hello Subbiah:

I don't work for Microsoft so I don't know what their design philosophy
was. From what I have read it appears that strengthening the browser's
security and bringing it up-to-date with the competition feature-wise
(principally tabs and RSS) were priorities. As for its appearance, I
understand it was created to fit in with Vista.

In any case, I doubt the browser's frame is carved in stone. Perhaps
more flexibility will be introduced later on. For now, I'm glad to have
tabs and to know that IE 7 has been hardened against attack.

---
Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Subbiah wrote:
> Hi Leonard:
>
> Thank you for your help. It is a bummer! I prefer to use short cut keys and
> in my opinion the Icon bar is a waste of valuable real estate on my monitor.
>
> Just do not understand why MS would have to interfere with my preferences of
> how the IE7 should look and feel. Upgraded to IE7 in my work machine
> yesterday and apart from the Tab's where I can keep many web sites under a
> single window (which saves viewable space on my monitor), there isn't much in
> IE7 that I like.
>
> Sincerely,
> Subbiah.
>
>
> "Leonard Grey" wrote:
>
>> Hi again:
>>
>> The Command Bar cannot be removed.
>>
>> ---
>> Leonard Grey
>> Errare humanum est
>>
>> Subbiah wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> I have another question also. I want to get rid of the Command Icon bar
>>> also. I would appreciate your help on this.
>>>
>>> For some reason it does not allow me to remove the whole bar. The next best
>>> thing I could do was to Customize it by removing all the icons it can
>>> possibly show. But, for some reason when IE7 is started next time, all the
>>> icons show up again!
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Subbiah.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Subbiah" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to get rid of the following in IE7? I would very much
>>>> appreciate your help on this.
>>>> 1) address bar,
>>>> 2) Internet Search bar,
>>>> 3) back/forward buttons
>>>>
>>>> Again, thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Subbiah.
>>>>