Do I sense a growning mobgroup mildly underwhelmed by IE7?

With a new installation of IE7 you may have to select other than the default toolbar to have a chance of finding the functions you're used to adjusting. If the "File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools, Help" line doesn't appear at the top, try Alt-F, Alt-V, or any of the shortcuts for one of the somethings on the Menu bar. That should "reveal" the menu bar so you can click "View," select "Toolbars," and put a check by "Menu Bar."

The check by "Menu Bar" on the View|Toolbars dropdown should make the old line show up at least, which will give you a familiar place to find stuff until you figure out where else they've scattered things.

Once you show the Menu bar you can get to the text size setting at View on that toolbar. One of the "new places" for text size is at the "Page" icon at the upper right.

On the lower bar of the stuff at the top, the larger (yellow-orange with default setup?) STAR icon is the "Favorites," and the smaller STAR with Plus sign is the "Add to Favorites." You have to click the big star, then on the drop-down click on History to get the rolldown of where you've been, instead of just clicking at the right of the "Back" button to get to it. There actually are three or four other ways of seeing "History" lists, but they're subtly different in useless ways. I can't find a purpose that all the different options serve, except that they placated some programmer who didn't know how the other programmers were doing things, so to placate them all they put in all their stuff.

All icons are "fuzzied" because it's more artistic, and we all know that "pretty" and "cute" outrank useful. Live with it (that's essentially the advice I got from Microsoft).

Almost all useful commands are disguised in either the Settings, Page, or Tools icons that probably appear at the upper right. Note that there's also a double-chevron (>>) over at the right where they've also put a "Help" button.

Everything that you used to be able to get to easily is HIDDEN in scattered obscure places, "because it's sexy" in the imaginings of the new programmers they stole from Apple. Since "you don't really need the Menu bar," that's why it's turned off by default. You should have known stuff was where it was relocated, because anything the programmers who mangled it know should be obvious, of course. It's stupid of you to think that things should be where you expect to find them, because the programmers know that all users are 13 year old kids who like surprises.

The familiar(?) Internet Options group of stuff should show on a drop-down if you click the "Tools," which I believe they intended to resemble a "gear wheel" but which looks more like a small cocklebur since they made all the icons indistinguishable "pastel" colors with "soft edges" on purpose.

IE7 does seem perhaps a little more "stable" than previous versions, although at present it's not significantly more so in very obvious ways.

John