[Ham-Computers] Need hint about IE8 Toolbar Problem

[Ron Youvan]

  Robert Downs - Houston  WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

   As a LINUX person that must use win at work I would like to give my opinion:
If windows misbehaves reboot - reboot - reboot.

> Until I shut down this morning around 02:00 everything seemed to be OK.
> When I came into the office and started up again later this morning, there was
> a toolbar problem.  I normally run with only the status (address) and menu
> bars, and at top of screen.  This morning there were (and still are) three
> tool bars showing.  The status bar is OK.  The menu bar still works but color
> is changed to black on black so it works by first hovering the mouse
> pointer until a dim rectangle appears and then clicking to drop down the menu.
> Below that is a bar which at the left end has a black background rectangle at
> the left end, with a gold star at its left end.  If you click anywhere in
> the rectangle, the favorites list shows up but drawn like the left pane of a
> two-pane application (like Outlook).  To the right of the rectangle all the
> way to the right edge of the screen you see what was on the screen in that
> location before you started IE8.

> And when you go to a site, the third bar hides the top 3/8" of what should
> be on the screen from that site.  Including the Files box if it's there,
> although if you click on it blindly, it still works.
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