I've been using IE 7.0 for a couple of weks now and enjoy it. If you don't want to use the tabs you don't have to. Larry, right click the top and choose large icons. I do this with all of my stuff. I'm getting old and don't like to squint. I bought one of the newer 22" monitors which was nice, but the text was so small that I had to squint too much. I actually had to go get my glasses and put them on and I usually don't wear them when on the computer. Now that I have everything set for large icon, off come the glasses again - freedom once more.