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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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  1. 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?

    Steve G

    18 May 09 at 12:58 am

  2. 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.

    Allen Clark

    16 Aug 09 at 6:11 pm

  3. 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

    TheAslan

    5 Nov 09 at 1:54 am

  4. For TheAslan :

    How to remove the Organize Menu

    (Windows 7 32 bit)

    Step 1. Download Resource Tuner
    http://www.restuner.com/download.htm
    (30 day free evaluation)

    Step 2. Edit your Shell32.dll file

    Step 3. Edit UIFILE > 12

    Step 4. Delete the following Element:

    Step 5. Save

    Step 6 replace your Original shell32.dll

    Done!

    Gabriele

    23 Nov 09 at 8:34 am

  5. pardon the element to delete is this ..

    Gabriele

    23 Nov 09 at 8:41 am

  6. .. ok this site don’t accept that string.. I put directly the link..

    http://www.virtualplastic.net/msgboard/thread.php?forum=1&thread=400

    Gabriele

    23 Nov 09 at 9:08 am

  7. 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.

    Urgent

    20 Dec 09 at 3:16 am

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

    nenn

    25 Apr 10 at 4:57 am

  9. 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

    koman

    19 Jun 10 at 4:30 am

  10. 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

    Kermonk

    25 Aug 10 at 8:47 am

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