How can I get additional IE toolbars?

[Lawrence]

I really like the Links toolbar. In fact, I'd love to have
two of them. (I don't like how IE "overflows" the icons if
there are too many on the toolbar.)

Even better, I'd like to have each item on the links
toolbar be a drop-down list of web sites under that
category instead of simply linking to a single web site.

Is there any Internet Explorer add-in or software out
there that would allow me to create my own additional IE
toolbars? I want to use them for web page links.

If not, can toolbars be programmed easily by a novice
programmer(i.e., I know VBA, but not alot about the
internals of Windows)?

This would be a luxury for me, so it's not worth lots of
money or lots of time. But it's definitely worth a little.

Thanks.

[Liz]

If you know VBA then you know more than me! But I must
ask the obvious...
It sounds like you want the links bar to do everything
that the favorites folder can do. My favorites folder is
set to cascade, it came like that, I have folders inside
of folders up to five deep in my favorites and I can open
anything with just hovering and one click.
Create two new folders in favorites, call one favorites,
and one links. You can open up two instances of your
favorites folder from windows explorer and manually move
all current favorites into the new folder, then do the
same with your links (I don't know where you'd find
that 'links' folder, but you can create new folders as
you move links into the new 'favorites, links' folder.)
Then you can create new folders as needed whenever you
want to. This sure would be easier than scrolling up and
down that links menu trying to find stuff.
Write back, I'm curious why links instead of favorites?
Liz

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[Lawrence]

Liz--

Thank you so very much for responding. I'm not sure I
understood exactly what you were suggesting, but while
reading it, I got a flash about the solution and, as you
said, it is really obvious. Perhaps it's just what you you
wrote.

The reason I don't want to use the Favorites menu is that
I have many, many links on that menu--easily more than 500-
-and the effort it takes me to click on the Favorites menu
and go through all the submenus to get what I want is
tedious and time consuming. (Plus I end up having to move
my mouse all over the screen.) I'm spending much of my
time navigating through web sites I use once a year to get
to the 25 or so sites that I use 90% of the time. But I
cannot fit 25 sites on my Links bar.

It never occurred to me, and I'm embarassed to admit it,
that I can just insert a folder into the Links submenu and
that folder will show up on the Links Bar. I feel like an
idiot. It's really very obvious, but I don't know why I
didn't think of this simple solution. Perhaps this was
exactly what you suggested.

So I can have a few single items on my Links bar that I
use all the time, e.g., Amazon, Mapquest, etc., and then
also a few folders which, when clicked upon, show a
submenu of related links. For example, I can make a folder
called "Search engines" and when I want to try something
other than Google, I can click the "Search Engines" folder
on the Links bar and then choose one of those sites, just
as if "Search Engines" were its own single-topic Favorites
menu on my Links bar. I won't have to navigate through all
of my rarely used Favorites just to find something I use
more frequently.

This probably sounds like I'm splitting hairs or trying to
save microseconds, but it really is much faster and less
tedious to click on one button and choose a link rather
than navigate the "Favorites" menu where I might have to
move my mouse past fifty other links and two submenus to
get what I want.

I hope this makes sense. Thanks for your suggestion...you
ultimately gave me the answer I needed!

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