IE Developer Toolbar keeps going away. How to get it to stay active?

March 6, 2007 8:15 PM

I have the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta 3 installed in IE7 on Windows XP. When I turn on the toolbar (Tools>Toolbars>Developer Toolbar) is shows up underneath the address bar up top. Sweet. But when I close the browser and reopen it the toolbar is no longer showing again. It just won't stay active. I have to got through the Tools>Toolbars>Developer Toolbar routine every time I want to use it, which is basically anytime I'm in IE since I only use it to test pages. Boo. How do I get it to stay put? A registry tweak perhaps? Mystical incantations? Mefi will know what to do.
posted by drinkspiller to computers & internet (6 comments total)

Right click on the top of the toolbar, to the right of help. It should be there in the list, then you can lock it also.
posted by lee at 8:59 PM on March 6, 2007

lee: I have "Lock the Toolbars" checked, still no dice.
posted by drinkspiller at 9:05 PM on March 6, 2007

I've had this problem too, with no resolution. It's just a piece of crap, as far as I can tell.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:16 PM on March 6, 2007

It's beta. Give 'em feedback.
posted by sageleaf at 1:12 AM on March 7, 2007

Do you have the Google Toolbar installed? If so, try this.

One of the various MS newsgroups recommended running this program, if you had disappearing (yet locked) toolbars in IE7. It solved all my problems with disappearing locked toolbars in IE7.
posted by longdaysjourney at 8:26 AM on March 7, 2007

Thanks for the info, longdaysjourney. Alas, none of those got it to stick around. Even though I don't have the Google toolbar installed I tried the registry tweak you linked to and I also tried both the program to which you linked and the registry tweaked mentioned on that same page.

The only third-party toolbar installed is from Acrobat, and I have that turned off. Please pass along any other suggestions! Thanks!
posted by drinkspiller at 10:41 AM on March 7, 2007