Computer experts: Lost Internet explorer shortcut

[Clarence Martin]

Ok, don't know how it happened, but the blue E for internet explorer dissappeared. Now, when I click on BING, the blue E shows up at the bottom of the screen with the rest of the shortcuts that are there. What the heck happened ? I want bing for Bing, and Explorer for Explorer. How do I fix this ?????

[Bert Kemp]

right click on each Icon and unpin them from taskbar then in your start menu find IE and right clic and then pin to task bar. Do the same with Bing. You might have to create a new shortcut with Bing if its not in your start menu do that from the website


Resize the Firefox window so you can see both your computer's desktop and the Firefox window on the same screen.
Click the icon on the left of the address bar (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs) (where the URL is shown).
While still holding the mouse button down, move the pointer to the desktop, then release the mouse button. The shortcut will be created.
then pin the new shortcut to task bar

[David T gray]

bing is a search engine

just left click the start button go to programs and iexplorer.exe should be in there

or

right click a blank place on your screen click new and then shortcut and enter

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"

[Clarence Martin]

OH, this is not looking good!!

Deleted a whole bunch of useless programs and the computer is running better now, but when I type in the "iexplorer" thing, the Internet Explorer E icon shows up at the bottom of the screen as it should, but the page for that screen is only a half a page in size AND the page freezes up !!! Can't do anything with that page except restart the computer!!!

Something is not right with this computer.

[Garth Almgren]

OH, this is not looking good!!

Deleted a whole bunch of useless programs and the computer is running better now, but when I type in the "iexplorer" thing, the Internet Explorer E icon shows up at the bottom of the screen as it should, but the page for that screen is only a half a page in size AND the page freezes up !!! Can't do anything with that page except restart the computer!!!

Something is not right with this computer.
This kind of thing can be really hard to troubleshoot via a forum. You're probably going to want someone to take a look at it for you, either by calling them to your house, bringing it in to a repair shop, or having someone use Remote Assistance to see your screen remotely.

Another option is to stop using Internet Explorer. If you have Firefox or Chrome installed, use them instead. :)

[paul cottingham]

Just count your blessings, and use Firefox or Chrome.

[Chuck Wintle]

OH, this is not looking good!!

Deleted a whole bunch of useless programs and the computer is running better now, but when I type in the "iexplorer" thing, the Internet Explorer E icon shows up at the bottom of the screen as it should, but the page for that screen is only a half a page in size AND the page freezes up !!! Can't do anything with that page except restart the computer!!!

Something is not right with this computer.
as has been suggested you have a lot of stuff happening than can be reasonably dealt with on this forum. Perhaps you can find a computer literate young person who could delve into the problem for free or not much money? Just a suggestion.

[Curt Harms]

Just count your blessings, and use Firefox or Chrome.

I thought that was the highest and best use for I.E., to download a functional web browser. :cool:

[Chuck Wintle]

OH, this is not looking good!!

Deleted a whole bunch of useless programs and the computer is running better now, but when I type in the "iexplorer" thing, the Internet Explorer E icon shows up at the bottom of the screen as it should, but the page for that screen is only a half a page in size AND the page freezes up !!! Can't do anything with that page except restart the computer!!!

Something is not right with this computer.
you can use task manager to close the IE page. Go to Start...All Programs.....Internet Explorer....Right mouse click on it and select Pin to taskbar. This should restore IE to the taskbar.

[Chuck Wintle]

I thought that was the highest and best use for I.E., to download a functional web browser. :cool:
This is the way to go....

[Chuck Wintle]

the blue E shows up at the bottom of the screen with the rest of the shortcuts that are there.
Clarence, this is known as the taskbar.

[paul cottingham]

I thought that was the highest and best use for I.E., to download a functional web browser. :cool:

Actually the highest and best use for IE is to download a functional Operating System like Linux or UNIX, a proper web browser is it second most noble purpose.