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How to Get your Explorer Menus Back! So how do you get Vista's Windows Explorer to show you menus? It's easy. Press the Alt key. That brings Windows Explorer's menus back, putting them front and center. (The same trick works in Internet Explorer.) Unfortunately, pressing the Alt key doesn't bring the menus back permanently. In fact, if you click just about anywhere inside the Explorer window, Vista takes it upon itself to turn the menus off again. Fortunately, there's a quick way to make the menus appear all the time. Here's how: Step 1. In Vista, bring up Windows Explorer (click Start, Documents or Start, Computer). Step 2. Press the Alt key. That brings up the menus. Step 3. Click Tools, Folder Options. Then click the View tab. Step 4. Near the top, check the box that says Always Show Menus. Step 5. While you're in this dialog box, you can configure some improvements: a. Make Vista show you hidden files and folders by clicking the box marked Show hidden files and folders; b. Make Vista show you filename extensions uncheck the box marked Hide extensions for known file types c. Have Vista show you all of your files. To do this, uncheck the box marked Hide protected operating system files (recommended). Note that you also have to click through a warning dialog box. Step 6. Click OK. |
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