Thanks to Eric Law over at MSDN we have a few pre-made registry edits that you can use to skip ahead and get the desired results now.  Just download the .reg file and then double-click it, restart IE9 and you’re done!  If you want to see the results, check out the screenshot at the bottom of this article.

Premade Registry Keys

Default – 2 Rows3 Rows4 Rows5 Rows

The registry packages are great, but you might prefer to do it manually.  In that case, just read the How-To below!

How To Show Additional Rows In The IE9 New Tab Page

Step 1

Open Regedit and Browse the following registry key:

Step 2

Right-Click a blanks pace on the right-pane and then Select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.* Name the new DWORD: *Note that even if you are on a 64-bit operating system you will still want to create a 32-bit DWORD.

Step 3

Open the NumRows DWORD and change the value to however many rows you would like.  I haven’t tested yet to see what the maximum number is yet, but the default is 2.

Done!

Now your New Tab page in Internet Explorer 9 will have the custom set of rows that you just assigned!

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