text: what kinds of toalbars are there?   far too many.  you have to be carefull.  my dell came packed with a toolbar that made windows internet explorer fail to launch. i wish i could tell you what that was so you can avoid it.  i try to stay clear from toolbars.  i have a collection of search engines in my mozilla firefox browser, but they don't take much space. plus i can pretty much build my own toolbar with firefox with links to all my favorite spots, like e-mails, myspace, netflix, etc.  it's convenient and you don't need to install any extraneous software to add it to your browser.