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Windows Explorer - How do I restore the menus?

Hercco
Okay, I've had this problem for close to a year now...

For some reason, the menus from the top of the Windows Explorer disappeared. This includes the "File Edit View ...." menu, the menu bar with back, fwd and up buttons (called the Standar menu, I think) and the "address" field to which you can type the directory.


Believe it or not, there is no way you can get any of the menus back if you have lost all of them. Normally you can change the menus by right clicing over one of them, but as I don't have any...

So where are these setting stored? In the registy I guess but I haven't managed to find it yet. Or is there another way to restore the menus?

By the way, I'm running Win 2000.

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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Funny situation biggrin.gif - never came across it before. Try your luck at www.annoyances.org though - they deal exactly with these kind of situations - i mean, all the day to day annoyances you encounter with the whole windows family. Very likely to find a solution there.
Recommendation: Use Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com/download.htm) - which is a two pane file manager (similar to what used to be Norton Commander for DOS) and hell of a lot more convenient that explorer's irrtating Folder | File display. Far easier to view two different drives in these two panes and move/copy files between them. Give it a shot.
Regards...

QUOTE (Hercco @ Jan 30 2005, 04:57 PM)
Okay, I've had this problem for close to a year now...

For some reason, the menus from the top of the Windows Explorer disappeared. This includes the "File Edit View ...." menu, the menu bar with back, fwd and up buttons (called the Standar menu, I think) and the "address" field to which you can type the directory.
Believe it or not, there is no way you can get any of the menus back if you have lost all of them. Normally you can change the menus by right clicing over one of them, but as I don't have any...

So where are these setting stored? In the registy I guess but I haven't managed to find it yet. Or is there another way to restore the menus?

By the way, I'm running Win 2000.
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Hercco
Yeah it was pretty annoying as I was so used using win explorer. I have used Explore XP to replace it, but usually going through My Computer works just fine for me.

Now off to check that site, thanks for the link.


EDIT: I got this solved. Not straight from annoyances.org but through few links. I opened the explorer in full screen F11 and then right clicked on its menu.

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