this is the very first thing I do when anyone brings there box to me for optimization;
this is almost as good as an f11 view, but I still have all of my buttons and tools
allright...right click the tool bar, and hit customize
now, remove all of the buttons you don't use, or hardly use
for instance, most people have their home page in their favorites, and don't need it on the toolbar...I never use the print button on the tool bar either
also, there's no reason for the separators, and they take more room then you think, so get rid of all of those
next, bottom left, get rid of all of those text labels...by now, you should know what the buttons mean
and now, go to small icons...aply and exit
next, right click again, and unlock the tool bars
starting from the bottom left, you can grab the dotted line, move it to the right and up
continue with the next dotted line, and so on
you don't need more then and inch and a half for the address bar, so move that over to a as small a serviceable size as you like
that's it...lock the too bar when you have all of this up to one bar
now, if you like, you can also auto hide the task bar on the bottom by right clicking, properties, task bar.
and of course, check auto hide