hi Clairdo,
If you mean your Internet Explorer toolbars, click on View, then hover your mouse over Toolbars. Just click on any you want to activate.

Pam

Pam there is no view .There is nothing at all at the top. Maybe it's not called toolbar...

Do you have the little gear shaped icon at the top right? If so, click on it and you will see toolbars. Click on toolbars and you can pick the ones you want to show.

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You haven't accidentally pressed the F11 key for full screen view thus taking away the toolbar.
Press the F11 key and see what happens.

Do you think If I removed internet explorer and put it back would fix it ?

IF you have IE7 the MENU bar by default hides. One way to have it show temporarly is to press the ALT key, then it shows until you click something. That will give you access to the 'Tools' menu item.

in IE7 you should be able to right click up in the very top gray area in a blank spot and choose Classic MENU from the list to get your menu items listed.

To get your menu bar up above the navigation bar you can do this.
In xp pro run gpedit.msc (start>run)
go to userConfiguration/Administrative Templates/WindowsComponents/InternetExplorer
Look for the option
Moving the menu bar above the navigation bar
ENABLE that option

I don't have tools on my toolbar either. I am using the msn browser and never have been able to figure it out? Is tools only used in Internet Explorer and called something else with the msn browser? I feel like such a ditz!

ohhhhhh well MSN browser is a different animal than IE, and no it does not look the same you are correct.
Did you try hitting the F11 key on the top of your keyboard to see if it had been minimized?
I have msn browser on my xp machine, I just went and looked at it and if I right click up in the top area there is an option to restore have you tried clicking that?
I don't know why you are using the msn browser, have you tried using firefox? It is so so so much better, really pretty much anything is better than that msn browser.