Full Screen Fun

If you would like to see more web page and less MS Internet Explorer toolbars, here's a little trick you'll like. Hit the F11 key. It will put you into "full screen" mode. Hit F11 again to go back to normal mode.

OK, many of you are sitting there thinking, yeah, I know all about that one. Well, here's a bonus!

One complaint people tend to have with full screen mode is that you don't have stuff like your address or menu bar. Well, in this case, you can actually have your digital cake and eat it too!

Just right-click a blank area of the toolbar. A menu will pop up that lets you add your address bar, menu bar, and any other Explorer bars you feel the need to have.

Since it's in full screen mode, you won't be able to squeeze too many of these extra little bars in, but at least you can get the essentials.

The above is all well and good, but what if you want even less Explorer toolbar at the top of your page?

Easy - right-click the toolbar and select Autohide from the resulting menu (same one as mentioned above). Now, when you move your mouse away, the toolbar disappears. Move your mouse back to the top and the toolbar re-appears. Kind of like magic - only since it's from Microsoft, there's a few more bugs...

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