Where did the Menu Bars go?

Notice anything missing in your Explorer folders? The menu bar (File, Edit, View…) is missing from those windows. It seems that MS decided to save you a little space for the windows. Though as most things happen to be in Windows Vista you can customize the windows and bring them back!

If you want to bring them back quickly for a single windows heres what to do. First lets look at what we are missing:

No Menu Bars

Now all you have to do is hit the Alt or F10 key to make them magically appear:

Menu Bars reappears!

Now the Menu Bar is back where it belongs!

If you want to have all windows display the menu bar permanently do the following:

In the window click on Organize, Layout and Menu Bar:

Menu bars permanently

The menus will now stay in all the windows permanently until you do the same command to remove it.


Switch Back To The Old Start Menu
Add Administrative Tools to the Vista Start Menu
Increase CPU Performance
Network & Sharing Center
Add a Personal Folder to the All Programs menu




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