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Windows Forum / Internet Explorer / General Topics / July 2007Can't hide Go button on Address Bar
In IE6, you could turn off the Go button on the Address Bar to save room. Now I'm using IE7 and can't find a way to turn it off. I've gone into Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, but there is no option to display or not display the Go button. Is this possible in IE7? > In IE6, you could turn off the Go button on the Address Bar to save room. > Now I'm using IE7 and can't find a way to turn it off. I've gone into > Tools, > Internet Options, Advanced, but there is no option to display or not > display > the Go button. Is this possible in IE7? The "Go" button turns into the "refresh" button. Why would you want to remove that? I'm referring to the Address Bar that can be displayed on the Windows taskbar - I want to turn off the Go button that is displayed as part of that Address Bar. Mike > > In IE6, you could turn off the Go button on the Address Bar to save room. > > Now I'm using IE7 and can't find a way to turn it off. I've gone into [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > The "Go" button turns into the "refresh" button. Why would you want to > remove that? > I'm referring to the Address Bar that can be displayed on the Windows > taskbar > - I want to turn off the Go button that is displayed as part of that > Address > Bar. that's a windows function Nothing to do with IE AFAIK..... With IE6, I believe it was controlled by a setting in IE under Tools, Internet Options, Advanced. There was a setting that allowed you to turn off the Go button, which effected both the Taskbar Address bar as well as the Address bar within IE. Now, in IE7, I don't see that option any more. Since there were seperate Go and Refresh buttons in IE6, there really wasn't a need for the Go button. Now in IE7, the Go and Refresh buttons have been combined into one, so I'm wondering if the ability to hide it has been removed? On the Taskbar Address bar, the Go button is only a Go button; it doesn't work as a Go and Refresh as it does within IE. Mike > > I'm referring to the Address Bar that can be displayed on the Windows > > taskbar [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > that's a windows function Nothing to do with IE AFAIK..... > With IE6, I believe it was controlled by a setting in IE under Tools, > Internet Options, Advanced. There was a setting that allowed you to turn > off > the Go button, which effected both the Taskbar Address bar as well as the > Address bar within IE. Now, in IE7, I don't see that option any more. Hi, You are correct in that the ability to show||hide the "Go" button in IE6 was an option in the Advanced Internet Options: Tools||Internet Options...||Advanced||Browsing> "Show Go button in Address bar" And was controled by the following Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main String Value Name: ShowGoButton Data Value: yes(to show) or no(to hide) With IE6 this setting affected the "Go" button in both the Browser Address bar and the Address bar (if shown) on Taskbar. When you install IE7 the "Show Go button in Address bar" is removed from the Advanced Internet Options, and while that Registry Key and value remain intact in the Registry, it has been rendered defunct. Good luck, Donald Anadell > Since there were seperate Go and Refresh buttons in IE6, there really > wasn't [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> >> that's a windows function Nothing to do with IE AFAIK..... When I upgraded to IE7 on my machine, I had already set the "Show Go button" to "No" under IE6, so it was not being displayed on e Taskbar Address bar. When I upgraded to IE7, the Go button was still not being displayed, even though there was no longer a setting under Internet Options to control it. Evidently, it retained that setting during the upgrade. Our IT group recently made some changes to our network infrastructure and as a result, I ended up with a new user profile on my machine. When I log in under that new profile, the Go button is displayed, with no apparent way to turn it off; when I log in under my old profile, it's gone. I can't use that old profile if I want network connectivity, however. Since there does seem to be some way to control the visibility of the Go button (since it isn't displayed under my old profile), I added the ShowGoButton value to the registry but it had no effect; should it actually be "Yes/No" or "0/1"? > > With IE6, I believe it was controlled by a setting in IE under Tools, > > Internet Options, Advanced. There was a setting that allowed you to turn [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > >> > >> that's a windows function Nothing to do with IE AFAIK..... > Since there does seem to be some way to control the visibility of the Go > button (since it isn't displayed under my old profile), I added the > ShowGoButton value to the registry but it had no effect; should it > actually > be "Yes/No" or "0/1"? Have you actually thought as to whether you really NEED the address bar on the taskbar? Why not just turn it off? (I've never used it in all the years I've used Windows on which it was available....) Hi, Well, I'll have to retract part of my comments in the previous post with regard to that Registry Key and it's capabilities with IE7 installed. After reading your reply this morning I played with it a little more on a machine that has IE7 installed on it. If I set the Registry Data Value to "no" at that Key, it will not remove the "Go" button on the Taskbar (on the fly ) the way it does on an IE6 machine. However, if I set the value to "no" and reboot the machine, the "Go" button is removed from the Address bar that sits on the Taskbar. So it would appear that the Registry setting is still a valid one, but requires a restart to take affect. With IE6, the Registry Key data value(s) "yes||no" were controled by the Advanced Internet Option "Show Go button in Address bar". A checkmark in the box next to that item would apply a Data value of "yes", and removing the checkmark would apply a data value of "no". And the change was made on the fly without having to restart the macine. The way it works here after IE7 is installed is that the change to the Registry must be made manually, followed by a restart of the machine in order for the change to take affect. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main String Value Name: ShowGoButton Data Value: no Reboot Good luck, Donald Anadell > When I upgraded to IE7 on my machine, I had already set the "Show Go > button" [quoted text clipped - 75 lines] >> >> >> >> that's a windows function Nothing to do with IE AFAIK..... Donald, I added that setting and rebooted, but the button is still there. Below is an export from REGEDIT: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer] @="" "ShowGoButton"="no" Is that the correct setting? Mike > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 110 lines] > >> >> > >> >> that's a windows function Nothing to do with IE AFAIK..... > Donald, > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Is that the correct setting? No The String value(ShowGoButton) and Data value(no) settings have to be added in the "Main" subkey under "Internet Explorer": [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] Good luck, Donald Anadell > Mike > [quoted text clipped - 135 lines] >> >> >> >> >> >> that's a windows function Nothing to do with IE AFAIK..... That did it! Thank you. > > Donald, > > [quoted text clipped - 158 lines] > >> >> >> > >> >> >> that's a windows function Nothing to do with IE AFAIK..... You're welcome Mike, glad you were able to resolve the issue. Good luck, Donald Anadell > That did it! Thank you. > [quoted text clipped - 179 lines] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> that's a windows function Nothing to do with IE AFAIK..... At [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] The "showgobutton" will change whenever you change that option in Windows Explorer. I also have always used the taskbar - addresstoolbar. I never use the other one for entering an address. Only thing I really dislike in IE7 is that ridiculous-confusing "x". Should have been one button that changes with the available action. -- mae | That did it! Thank you. | [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] | > >> | > >> Donald Anadell | > >> >> > With IE6, I believe it was controlled by a setting in IE under | > >> >> > Tools, | > >> >> >> > I'm referring to the Address Bar that can be displayed on the | > >> >> >> > Windows > Only thing I really dislike in IE7 is that ridiculous-confusing "x". > Should have been one button that changes with the available action. Are you referring to the Stop button? In the early beta design there was only one control: a multifunction button whose function depended on the state of the page. E.g. most of the time it would be a Refresh button; if the user entered something in the Address bar it became a Go button; while the page was being rendered it became a Stop button. Simple. Elegant. The problem apparently was that many testers couldn't grasp the concept and demanded a permanently visible Stop button. Too bad. I think it is ugly too. --- | > Only thing I really dislike in IE7 is that ridiculous-confusing "x". | > Should have been one button that changes with the available action. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] | the concept and demanded a permanently visible Stop button. Too bad. | I think it is ugly too. Yes, the stop button. The multifunction is what it should have been. :) Oh well.....have a nice day. -- mae |
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