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How to remove a few things.

Jul 10, 2010 7:59PM PDT

First, the AOL Search in the top right corner of Internet Explorer 8.
Second, Web Slice Gallery.
Third, Suggested Sites next to the second.

I'm not looking to perminatly remove all three. I'm juts looking to get it out of the way, if possible. If not, how to remove them.

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Re: removing things from IE8
Jul 10, 2010 8:43PM PDT

Things to try:
1. Replace AOL-search by another one (f.e. Bing or Google) by clicking on the 'search options' arrow next to the looking glass. I don't think you can totally remove it.
2. View>Toolbars
3. Tools>Manage Addons

Kees

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Thanks.
Jul 10, 2010 10:13PM PDT

Thanks. 2 seemed to do 3, but when I tried 3, it doesn't show anything about disabling Suggested Sites.

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2 & 3...
Jul 11, 2010 1:57AM PDT

...are items on the "Messenger Plus Live Tool bar". Right click at an empty area and choose to hide it...else View Menu>Toolbars... 1 seems to be built in. I have "Google" insteaad of AOL