Admitedly, I'm a IE newbie having spent most of my browsing life using
Netscape and FF. Therefore, the questions I post may appear too simplistic to
even answer but I ask them only after an ernest attempt to find the answer
myself. Having said that:

There must be more functionality in IE than shows in the vanilla IE window
but I haven't found someplace where I can customize the toolbars? Also, I
assume there are themes that will change the window colors and change the
style from the boring flat window but I don't know how to do that either.
Where is any of this documented? Help, I'm sorry to say, is too superficial.
I really hate to have to buy a book for IE!