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Menu Bar at Top of Internet Explorer Window

Last reviewed: 19/02/2011

If you have been a long term user of Internet Explorer you may be used to the menu bar at the top of the screen. However if you enable the menu bar in Internet Explorer 7.0 then you get the menu bar below the address bar:

Screenshot: Internet Explorer before the registry change.

With a quick registry setting, you can put the menu bar at the top of the screen above the address bar.

Screenshot: Internet Explorer after the registry change.

Copy the following text in to a new notepad document and save as ie-menutop.reg. Change the file type to All Types so that you can put the extension in place. Once saved, right click on the file and choose merge. Restart Internet Explorer to see the change.

The change also works on the Windows Vista version of Internet Explorer 7.0, but the registry file needs to be copied to the local machine before you can merge.


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