Secrets of Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate

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 window, here is what to do. First lets look at what we are missing:

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

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:

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