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Show Hidden Windows Explorer Menu Bar in Windows 7 or Vista

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Windows Explorer has undergone a lot of changes in Windows 7 and Vista. As part of several changes, Vista or Windows 7 users will not see the menu bar in Windows Explorer because it’s been hidden. You can make the hidden Windows Explorer menu bar visible by using any one of these methods:

Make the Explorer menu bar visible temporarily

In order to see the menu bar in Windows Explorer, just hit the ALT key when you’re browsing any folder. The menu bar appears momentarily and will disappear once you release the ALT key.

Show the Explorer menu bar permanently

To make the hidden Explorer menu bar visible always, just click on the ‘Organize’ button in the top left corner of Windows Explorer. Go to the ‘Layout’ menu option and choose ‘Menu bar’. This toggles the display of the Explorer menu bar.

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This is how you make the Explorer menu bar visible in Windows Vista or Windows 7

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 5th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

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  • Steve G

    This begets the question: why did they hide it in the first place? Is there a new policy at MS to hide things that are useful?

  • Allen Clark

    This is certainly one way of revealing the menu bar (also under Folder and Search Options). Unfortunately, Vista then gets stuck – you can’t hide the menu bar again by unchecking the Menu Bar option. Annoying.

  • http://- TheAslan

    Hiya!!

    There is that Organize and other things, but i haven’t found a hack what will hide that Organize bar, if you know how to hide it, can you sene email to me at: toni.kumpula@pp2.inet.fi

  • Gabriele

    pardon the element to delete is this ..

  • Urgent

    hi, I have windows vista ultimate 32bit SP1, i”ve installed the vista leopard conversion pack, which transformed the windows into somethin called windows vista OSX, and everything is fine except that the menu containig organize\view\burn became autohide, so can anbody tell me how can i make it sticky????

    note that m not asking about the file\edit..etc menu
    help will be appreciated.

  • nenn

    yeah you could do all that, or press ‘alt’

  • koman

    Nice tutorial,
    However i’m having the opposite problem, i’m trying to get rid of it and using the organize menu doesn’t work for me

  • Kermonk

    Is there a way to add the “Favorites” of Win Xp to this?

    Its far easier to have a lot of folders “bookmarked” from a fixed drop down menu, than having to faff around with the path tree in explorer

  • http://jhgenius01.webs.com Jason

    im also trying to remove the menu bar

  • boggled

    thank you for this info. i have been using windows a long time and had no inclination to look there for that option. what is to gain by hiding the menu?

  • John Fowles

    Kermonk wisely said
    “Is there a way to add the “Favorites” of Win Xp to this?

    Its far easier to have a lot of folders “bookmarked” from a fixed drop down menu, than having to faff around with the path tree in explorer”

    Whilst you can add folder “bookmarks” to the favorite folder then access that folder from Internet Exploder it is annoying that there does not seem to be any method for restoring favorites to the menu bar in Windows Explorer under Windows 7