If you're using IE, you may want to right-click on the top bar (almost anywhere blank will do) and you'll get a drop down with a list of things that can be displayed on the bar. Putting a check by the "Menu Bar" puts the familiar "File - Edit - View - Favorites - Tools - Help" list up where you can see it. That should put your Favorites drop-down where they're easy to get to.

You can also put a check beside "Favorites Bar" to place a separate bar at the top. A yellow star with a green arrow on that bar lets you "Add to Favorites Bar" to put a separate icon on the bar for sites you visit really often. (I put the local Obit column there, so I can check whether I died in my sleep and didn't notice. I check it every morning.) Note that it will get really crowded if you put very many things there, so you'll probably still want the familiar drop-down Favorites list.

If your migration to Win7 is recent, you may need to reinstall the Google toolbar, as it seems not to be brought across with other things that the migrate tool does bring across from an older OS. Since Google has released several recent updates, including some with some security patches, you may want to do that anyway. The latest Google toolbar has some changes I don't really care for, but it still gives you lots more search options than I've found in Bing - if you can figure out how to get them set up with the new menus (Google menus and Win7).

Bing appears to be included with "Microsoft Live" or with "Live Essentials" and I believe you can install parts of them without taking the whole thing. I don't recall whether I was able to remove Bing separately, or whether I had to zap the whole thing and put it back with fewer pieces. You do have to install some of "Live Essentials" to get the new "Mail," so you might want to check the Microsoft website for real info about getting Bing off, if you use any of the other "Live" features.

John