[Ham-Computers] IE 8 Question

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Loren,

Under View/Toolbars in IE 8 there is no Navigation Bar choice.  Only Menu, 
Favorites, Command, Status, Adobe PDF, Lock the Toolbars.  At the moment, 
Menu, Command and Status are checked.  Apparently the Navigation bar, which I 
assume is the top one in IE 8, cannot be turned off.

However, I found the culprit.  Turning off AutoComplete (which I find very 
annoying) turns off storage and display of URL's that were entered.  When I 
just now turned back on AutoComplete, the dozen or so URL's that show up 
when I click the down-arrow button at the right end of the URL field are ones 
that I vaguely recall entering three or four days ago.  No doubt just before 
I turned off AutoComplete.

Anyway, your response did ultimately lead me to the answer.  When I didn't 
find Navigation Bar listed in any of the settings, I started through the 
Help files which eventually lead me to a clue that there was a connection 
between the damned AutoComplete function and what I was missing.  Thanks.

In a message dated 4/3/2010 10:43:56 PM Central Daylight Time, 
lmoline at hotmail.com writes: 
> Try view...toolbars..check navigation bar.
> 
> 
> Loren   WA7SKT
> 
> 
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> >From: WA5CAB at cs.com
> >Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 23:28:51 -0400
> >To: Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net
> >Subject: [Ham-Computers] IE 8 Question
> >
> >Group,
> >
> >Recently, spurred on by various circumstances I won't list, I updated the 
> 
> >remaining two of our three machines to XP.  During the updating period 
> >immediately afterwards, IE ended up as IE 8.  The third machine (a 
> laptop) had had 
> >IE 8 for a while but I hadn't done much with it as until some of the 
> >"circumstances", it didn't get used much here at the house.
> >
> >After all three machines had sorta settled down I went through IE on each 
> 
> >and turned off a bunch of fluff and stuff I have no interest in using, 
> like 
> >half a dozen different tool bar add-ons and etc.  Basically just trying 
> to 
> >get it down to a minimalist browser.  After I was finished, I discovered 
> that 
> >one familar function had disappeared.  The address bar (field where you 
> can 
> >manually enter a URL if you need to) has a down-arrow button on the right 
> 
> >end.  Since as far back as I can remember with IE, clicking this 
> down-arrow 
> >dropped down a list of the last several URL's that were entered.  This no 
> 
> >longer happens.  Does anyone have any idea what I might have turned off 
> that 
> >inhibited this feature?
> >

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