IE Toolbar is the new leading way to skin your Internet Explorer toolbar. It is easy to convert from hotbar also please read the following for instructions on installing and convert from Hotbar to IE Toolbar.

If you don't have Hotbar installed:

• First download and install the IE Toolbar component
• Then close your IE browser and reopen it. 
• Now you will see a new icon right next to your mail or messenger icons like the one below
• click this icon
• select the image you would like and click ok
• You won't see your image right away!!! Close your browser and reopen it.

If you do have Hotbar and you want to switch to IE Toolbar:

• First go to your control panel and double click on the add/remove programs icon
• Now scroll down till you see hotbar and click on it and click remove
• You can now download and install the IE Toolbar component
• Then close your IE browser and reopen it.
• Now you will see a new icon right next to your mail or messenger icons like the one below
• click this icon
• select the image you would like and click ok
• You won't see your image right away!!! Close your browser and reopen it.
• Now you will want to move your bmp images from hotbar over. Hotbar doesn't actually delete the folder in which these are located.
• Go to Windows Explorer and go to this directory C:\Program Files\Hotbar
• Now click on View above and make sure detail is selected
• click on type to sort your list by type
• now click on the first bmp file in the list
• press and hold the shift key and click on the last bmp in the list
• now hold down the Ctrl button and C button this will copy the images
• now go to this directory C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Bitmaps
• and hold down the Ctrl button and the V button this will paste the images in this directory
• Now your old Hotbar images will be in your new IE Toolbar list. :)

If you would like to create the IE Toolbar Images:

• Create an image in Adobe Photoshop or other graphic editor. The size depends on a few factors. If you choose an image that can be tiled nicely horizontally like the one above then it doesn't need to be the full width but should be approximately 120-135 pixels high. If you want a picture for background we suggest the following dimensions 800x135 but if you have a screen size of 1024X768 then it should be 1024X135. 
• Then you will want to save your image and place it in C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Bitmaps
• Now zip it up with Winzip or another zip utility. With the path set as C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Bitmaps