How to Move the Menu Bar Above the Address Bar in IE8
Have you ever noticed that the menu bar in IE8 is placed below the address bar when comparing to IE6 or Firefox? If you would like to move IE8 menu bar to be appeared on top of address bar, you can do it with simple registry hack.
1. Open notepad.
2. Copy below string and paste it into notepad.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\]
"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001
3. Save the file as” ie8_menuabove.reg” with Save as type is All Files.
4. Double click the registry file, continue with UAC prompt and click OK to confirm you wish to perform the action.
Once you completed the above steps, launch the new instance of IE and you will notice that the menu bar is now appeared above the address bar.
If you would like to revert the above change, follow below steps:
1. Copy below string and paste it into notepad
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\]
"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000000
2. Save the file as “ie_belowmenu.reg” with Save as type is All Files
3. Double click the registry file, continue with UAC prompt and click OK to confirm that you wish to perform the action.
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October 20th, 2009 05:50
now, if only we can get all the toolbars on one line…
Why Microsoft wants you to view toolbars instead of the web is beyond me.
If you use IE8 on a netbook, all you see is toolbars and now web!!!
June 25th, 2009 04:40
hey thanks..worked great!!!
June 21st, 2009 19:45
Thank you to the Admin, who has fixed the problem with the quotes, and posted an updated version of the string … so now the tweak works okay when you copy and paste.
June 14th, 2009 22:18
I copied and pasted the code into notebook, but it did not work for me.
Even though the message box said that the info had been merged successfully into the registry, no entry was written into the registry.
So I entered the info manually into the registry, and it worked.
I then exported the key from the registry, and studied both reg files carefully, loooking for maybe a typo or extra space.
Lo and behold, the difference was the style of the quotes around ITBar7Position.
Your quotes did not work, but mine were okay !
May 25th, 2009 01:21
It didn’t work here either. I’m using IE 8 with Windows XP x64 (using the 32-bit version of IE 8).
May 19th, 2009 17:36
IT guy won’t be denied, so I went and downloaded IE8 and tried again still doesn’t work. I still don’t have the “ITBar7Position” option in regedit, only ITBar7Layout I did notice a new line but one big thing I remember in Tech school was NEVER mess with the registry unless you know exactly what you are doing.
Luckily I know what I am doing (most of the time LOL)
I revert back to my original post, maybe this is a vista only trick.
May 19th, 2009 16:05
I am assuming this only works on vista or you have to be sure to have IE 8 , I only have IE7 the registry patch doesn’t work in my version . I tried to do it thru regedit and I do not have the “ITBar7Position” I only have ITbar7layout
Oh well
May 11th, 2009 06:12
If you use regedit and put it in manually it works.
May 7th, 2009 12:34
hi
i did what you explained above regarding the menu bar above the address bar but nothing happened.
It said the file has been added to the rgistry but when i open IE 8 it is still the same
please advise