Missingitems on IE6

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I turned on my new Dell Desktop yesterday and for some reason part of my IE
is missing; such as; File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools, Help and also the
address bar and my search toolsbars, MSN, Yahoo. The only thing showing is
the portion of IE showing the icons for refresh, home, search, favorites,
etc. I am running Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 with McAfee Antivirus, no
third-party firewall. I have not done anything different to my PC that I
know of, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
Hi,

It looks as though your IE may be in Kiosk mode.

Try pressing F-11 on your keyboard.

Does that help?

Best regards,

Altrus


: I turned on my new Dell Desktop yesterday and for some reason part of my IE
: is missing; such as; File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools, Help and also the
: address bar and my search toolsbars, MSN, Yahoo. The only thing showing is
: the portion of IE showing the icons for refresh, home, search, favorites,
: etc. I am running Windows XP Home Edition with SP2 with McAfee Antivirus, no
: third-party firewall. I have not done anything different to my PC that I
: know of, and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
If pressing F11 doesn't do the trick -

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/ToolbarRepair.Exe
This little app should repair the registry entries that have become fouled
up.

Or, manually, courtesy of Doug Knox, MVP:

Close any open Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer windows.

Click Start, Run and enter REGEDIT

Go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar

There are 3 sub keys: Explorer, ShellBrowser, WebBrowser

In each of these sub-keys is the entry for ITBarLayout

For IE Toolbars: The WebBrowser Sub-key directly affects IE.
For Windows Explorer Toolbars: The Explorer Sub-key directly affects
Explorer.
The ShellBrowser sub-key may affect IE as well. Its effect on IE and
Windows Explorer is unknown at this time, so if the first option doesn't
work, delete the ITBarLayout value here as well.

Choose the relevant sub-key and right click where it says ITBarLayout and
select Delete.

The deleted value will automatically be recreated for you.

You may want to right click on the main key (above) and select Export. This
will allow you to backup the contents of the whole key, including subkeys.
 
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