‘ROOM WITH A VIEW
‘There’s a way to reduce the size of the Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 toolbar to leave more room for Web page content.
You can completely eliminate the toolbar if you like. Choose View, Toolbar. Toolbar is a toggle command, and when the toolbar is in view, the Toolbar command has a check mark beside it. Choosing the command removes the check mark, and the toolbar. If you want even more space, choose View, Status Bar. This is also a toggle, and selecting it turns it off.
This leaves you with only the menu bar and maximizes the Web page space. To turn the toolbar and status bar back on, just reselect the options as described.
If you don’t want to completely remove the toolbar, move the mouse over the bottom edge of the toolbar. When the cursor turns into a vertical double arrow, drag upward. If you drag the toolbar up as far as it will go, you’ll have a single-line toolbar with all the components crammed into the small space.
CUSTOMIZING THE TOOLBAR
Let’s look at how to manage the objects on the toolbar. Choose View, Options and click the General tab. Now you can decide what you want on your toolbar. You can choose to have Standard buttons, an Address Bar, Links, Text Labels, and a Background Bitmap. All you have to do is select (or deselect) the components you want and click OK. Even if you go with the absolute minimum, all the features (except for the Address Bar) will still be available from the menu.
This is worth experimenting with. For example, are you sure you know what happens if you deselect Standard Buttons? Check out each option until you find the one you like best. Remember, you can always change it back to the way it was when you started.
PICKING UP WHERE YOU LEFT OFF
Why Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 automatically opens and dials the ISP as soon as the computer starts. The only reason we can see for this is that IE 4 will start where it left off when the computer was shut down.
Suppose you’re at your favorite Web site when you decide to shut down. You choose Start, Shut Down, select Shut Down, and click OK. The next time you turn on the computer, IE 4 opens, dials the ISP, and navigates to the page you were viewing when you shut down. It’s assuming you got disconnected by mistake.
This won’t happen if you close IE 4 before you shut down.
PASTING PICTURES
There is not a way to paste pictures into Internet Mail. At least not in the way you want to paste pictures. Internet Mail doesn’t support graphics.
If you copy a picture and then go to Internet Mail and right-click in the message, you’ll find that the Paste command is available. However, when you choose Paste, the picture will be added to the message as an attachment.
There’s no way to paste a picture directly into a message using Internet Mail.
MONOGRAM IT
There’s a way to put your own name or company name into the Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 title bar,but you’ll have to dig into the Registry, and you know that you need to be very careful when modifying the Registry.
Make sure IE 4 is not running and click Start, Run. Type in
regedit
and press Enter (or click OK if the mouse is handy). When
RegEdit opens, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Main. Right-click in a blank area of RegEdit’s
right pane and choose New, String Value. Name the new string
Window Title
Exactly as shown here and press Enter. Now double-click the new string’s icon and, when the dialog box opens, type in your new title as you want it to appear in the title bar. Click OK to save your change. Close RegEdit (choose Registry, Exit) and run IE 4. Your new title should appear in the title bar.