How to make these things not show up in the IE8 address drop down menu?

TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
edited November 2010 in Science & Tech
I've had IE8 on my desktop for a couple months, and it is ok. Not great, just ok.

Today I installed Windows 7 Premium 64 bit from a DVD, and its version of IE8 is somewhat different. When I click the address bar drop down tab, it has a section for History and another for Favorites, below the recently visited web addresses.

I do not want those 2 sections to be there at all. How do I make them disappear? If I want something from my Favorites section, I'll click the tab over on the left side of the screen.

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    You install Firefox.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    Ok. Any real answers, anyone? It took me THIS long to install IE8 and then 7, Firefox is at least 2 years away for me!

    And somehow, Windows 7 installed on my C partition while leaving the XP operating system alone, but looking in the Startup options section shows 7 as the only operating system, and not XP. So how do I dual boot this thing?
  • CantiCanti =/= smalltime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K18CGEeiI&feature=related Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    >implying the correct answer isn't a real answer





  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2010
    You can't turn that off - or at least not in any obvious way. Oddly enough I've been running windows 7 since it's launch and while my primary browser is FF I do need to use IE 8 fairly regularly. But until you mentioned it I never even noticed that history and favorites sections below.
  • pragtasticpragtastic Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    Who uses the address drop-down bar menu to get to navigate? Ctrl+L ftw.
  • pragtasticpragtastic Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    pragtastic wrote:
    Who uses the address drop-down bar menu to navigate? Ctrl+L ftw.

    Yes, it's better to reply to your own post with edited text, rather than edit the original post.

    Deal with it.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    I put XP back on, I didn't like the changes 7 had in it. I reloaded IE8 from the microsoft site, and it doesn't have those 2 sections in the address drop-down tab.
  • KwitkoKwitko Sheriff of Banning (Retired) By the thing near the stuff Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    Maybe a typewriter would be more your speed.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    Kwitko wrote:
    Maybe a stone tablet and chisel would be more your speed.
    ftfy
  • RichDRichD Essex, UK
    edited November 2010
    Or upgrade to IE6. That should do the trick
  • AnnesAnnes Tripped Up by Libidos and Hubris Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    What changes in 7 didn't you like?
  • pragtasticpragtastic Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    The modernness.
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    The closing of a few of the gaping security holes.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    since when is gaping bad...

    oh, we're talking OS's here...
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    What didn't I like in 7?

    Well let's see...

    When I hit the My Computer button to find folders on my hard drives, it doesn't do it exactly the way XP does. It looks different, things are arranged a bit differently, etc.

    When I download a file in XP, I put it where I want it. 7 likes to insist that I can only save in certain folders.

    So it's just more hassle to save files and go find them again in 7.

    If they could make an OS with the internal workings of 7, but the stuff on the screen is EXACTLY like XP, that would be good.

    And when I loaded 7, it changed the ordering of my drive letters. I had C and D, a 60 GB and 405 GB partition on a 500 GB drive. Then there was E, a 250 GB drive, and F, the CD-RW drive.

    7 changed D to E and E to D without asking me, and I don't see how to change it back, even after reloading XP, unless I reformat everything and start fresh. There was no need to change the drive lettering and it did not need to be done.

    Now when I hit My Computer and go to something that has been on the E drive for YEARS, I have to stop and think "wait, no, the E drive is the D drive now, and the D drive is the E drive, because 7 went and changed something it had no business changing!!!".

    That's why I went back to XP.
  • pragtasticpragtastic Alexandria, VA Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    XP 4 life brah!
  • TiberiusLazarusTiberiusLazarus Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    Windows ME had the best windows interface of all time. Of ALL TIME.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    I can't believe no one has mentioned Windows 95b. When they added that you know what and did the you know who to the...

    at least Tim's not a Vista lover...
  • CrazyJoeCrazyJoe Winter Springs, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    Tim wrote:
    What didn't I like in 7?
    7 changed D to E and E to D without asking me, and I don't see how to change it back, even after reloading XP, unless I reformat everything and start fresh.

    That's why I went back to XP.

    Here let me google that for you...
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    You are the worst computer user in the history of computer users. You know exactly what's wrong, but can't be assed to FIND A SOLUTION.
  • miragemirage
    edited November 2010
    Snarkasm wrote:
    You are the worst computer user in the history of computer users. You know exactly what's wrong, but can't be assed to FIND A SOLUTION.

    I think Tim wants to take some abuse from Icrontic people every now and then. Kids do this when they need attention.
  • TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    I fixed the letters. I did google search it, but I apparently put in the wrong search terms, because that search didn't find what this search did.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited November 2010
    What could you have searched for that wouldn't find the solution to your problem given your description? The search "change drive letters windows" finds it. The search "drive name windows" finds it (second link). What did you write? "Windows 7 modified the configuration of my drive table and I would like to return it to its XP state?"
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