Comments on: IE8: Hide the Favorites Bar

By: Maximus

Maximus — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:37:29 +0000

While I’ve never been able to make the Favorite Button disappear, I was able to make it move off of the Favorites Tool Bar using a registry tweak.

Go to :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\CommandBar]

In the key “FavBandRow” change the value to “3″ and the Favorites Button will move off the Favories Bar and up to the Bar directly above.

This then leaves more room on the Favorties Bar itself for more favorites.

By: Jdalduncan

Jdalduncan — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 21:18:00 +0000

Is there any way to hide the Tabs toolbar? It really does take up a lot of space on my screen and I constantly have to scroll down to see my entire webpage

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:41:00 +0000

Had to add a new Key for Internet Explorer, Toolbars and Restrictions and then a new DWORD for NoCommandBar with a modified value of 1.

It works but then you lose the ability to view your History.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:49:00 +0000

The tutorial as described above does work exactly as described. You are left with the favorites button but it shares a small amount of the real estate as the tabs.

Removing the favorites button is possible through registry hacks but gives you little additional real estate.

By: Godoggies

Godoggies — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:43:00 +0000

This is what I found (WARNING- you are on your own by using this.)
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There is an easy way to get rid of that wasted space with a simple registry entry. That Favorites Button and blue bar was driving me nuts.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftInternet ExplorerToolbarsRestrictions]

In My case I had to create a new key entry tiled “Toolbars” and under that “Restrictions”. Once you have those just click on Restrictions and create new dword which will look like this “NoCommandBar”=dword:00000001″ without the quotes.
This has worked for me but I am not responsible if you screw things up. I have attached the screenshots so you can see for yourself

By: bob

bob — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:21:00 +0000

there is a registry hack to remove the favorites bar… it is hard to find… I will try to find the instructions again and post

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:17:00 +0000

That trick doesn’t work! Anybody have an answer???

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:45:00 +0000

On a related issue, does anyone know is it possible to just add favourties to favourites and not to the favourites bar?
I liked the old Links way of doing things – it meant you could have a quick link to a few key urls without having dig around in favourites. Now ever time I add a favourite I have to delete it from the favourites bar which is crazy as I add several a day!

By: Fred Gregg

Fred Gregg — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:26:00 +0000

When I right-click on a blank spot on the tool bar, the Favorites Bar is not checked yet “Favorites Bar” is present below “Favorites” when I click on Favorites on the tool bar. And when I expand “Favorites”, “Favorites Bar” appears at the bottom of the list. When I expand “Favorites Bar”, the page is blank. If I delete the “Favorites Bar”, it comes right back when I reopen the IE8. Can I perminately get rid of this “Favorites Bar” and how?

By: Woody

Woody — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:51:00 +0000

I can’t get rid of it either…….. It stays stuck behind my tabs. It is in my way and I don’t like it.