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Like most Web browsers, Internet Explorer 8 has add-ons. But sometimes you may want to get rid of them, even if just temporarily. IE 8 has made it easier to disable and enable your add-ons. Here's how to do it.
Let's say you have the Google Toolbar running in IE 8. You should see an X to the left of the toolbar. It's the familiar X that usually means you can close something. In this case, you'd be right to guess that. Click that X and you'll disable the toolbar.
Now that can be dangerous if other add-ons rely on the one you're disabling. So IE 8 gives you a lovely list of any dependent add-ons and the option to disable them at the same time. Once you've made your selections, press the Disable button and the add-on will disappear.
What if you want it back?
Go to tools and select Manage Add-ons.
Select the type of add-on, in our example from above, it would be a toolbar.
Scroll down until you find your toolbar. And press enable.
IE 8 will suggest re-enabling any related add-ons you disabled earlier. Press enable again, then press close.
In the case of the toolbar, even though I had enabled it, it still didn't show up. I had to go to View, select toolbars and select the Google Toolbar to make it viewable.
If you want to browse through all the add-ons available for IE 8, visit www.ieaddons.com.
Go to addons.mozilla.org and search for SimpleSearch. While it's still in the experimental stage, you'll have to log in to use it.
After you've installed the add-on, go to a page on the Web and highlight a word. Right click and highlight the search option.
Choose the search engine you want.
And you'll be taken to that search.
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