If you allow remote content from all senders (not recommended) in Options/Privacy & Security, you won't see the options bar. If you don't want to allow remote content from any sender, but don't want to see the bar, set View/Message Body As to anything besides Original HTML.

Thank you!! I've been receiving email for for over 20 years and have never had a problem with anything so I'm not worried about remote content. I really appreciate the excellent help I've received from this support forum. I like the program almost as much as I liked Incredimail which I used from the day it was released. I've tried a dozen others since Incredimail was discontinued and found this to be the best of the lot. Thanks again!