Windows 7 - Internet Explorer Accelerator button - Turn On or Off

**Brink**

Turn On or Off Internet Explorer 8 Display Accelerator Button on Selection

Information

This will show you how to have the Windows 7 Internet Explorer Accelerator button to display or not display when text is selected or highlighted in Internet Explorer. By default this is set to display in Windows 7.

EXAMPLE: Display Accelerator button on selection ON
NOTE: When turned on, you can click on the accelerator blue arrow button displayed when selecting text in Internet Explorer to see and select from any enabled accelerator add-on.

EXAMPLE: Display Accelerator button on selection OFF
NOTE: When turned off, you can still right click on the selected text in Internet Explorer to see and select from any enabled accelerator add-on.

Here's How:

1. Open Internet Explorer.
A) Click on the Tools Command Bar icon button or Menu Bar item and click on Internet Options.

B) Go to step 3.

OR

2. Open the Control Panel (All items View) .
A) Click on the Internet Options icon.

3. Click on the Advanced tab. (See screenshot below)

4. To Turn On Display Accelerator Button on Selection -
A) Check the Display Accelerator button on selection box, then click on OK. (See screenshot above)

5. To Turn Off Display Accelerator Button on Selection -
A) Uncheck the Display Accelerator button on selection box, then click on OK. (See screenshot below step 3)

That's it,
Shawn

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**sparhawk77** · 04-10-2010

I have tried to add accelerators from the IE8 accelerator page. Nothing happens when I click on the Add To Internet Explorer button. I have checked all of my settings and options and nothing jumps out at me as far as errors. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this? Thanks in advance for any help supplied.

**MadMaxData** · 04-10-2010

Your running XP SP3?

**Brink** · 04-10-2010

Hello Sparhawk, and welcome to Seven Forums.

Not sure if it will be the same in XP SP3 or not, but did you do everything that was in this tutorial below instead to add an accelerator?

Internet Explorer - Add or Remove Accelerator Add-ons

**sparhawk77** · 04-11-2010

Thank you for the replies. I do run SP3. I had run through all of the steps a number of times trying to add more of them, but every time I pressed the button to add the accelerator nothing would happen. IE8 started to act quite bizarre so I just went ahead and uninstalled and re-installed it. Now everything is working fine. Thanks again for all of the replies.

**Brink** · 04-11-2010

I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted Sparhawk. Thank you for posting back with your results.