Hide Menubar, Addressbar & Throbber in My Computer in Windows XP



Many times we want to hide Menubar, addressbar or the little throbber in Explorer window, but we can't hide them cause there is no option available to hide them except addressbar.

Here I'll tell you how can you hide them using a simple registry hack.

Hiding Menubar:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_here/Hide_Menubar.jpg

Hiding Addressbar:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_here/Hide_Addressbar.jpg

Hiding both Menubar & Addressbar:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_here/Hide_Menubar_and_Addressbar.jpg

Hiding Throbber (Small Windows Flag):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_here/Hide_Throbber.jpg

To Revert Back to Default Settings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v374/vishaal_here/Default_Explorer.jpg

Just download following zip file, extract it and you'll get separate .REG files for each option. Run the desired .Reg file. It'll ask for confirmation, simply click on YES and then OK.

hide-codes.zip



This article was posted in Windows XP.

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34 Comments

  • I might be too late to be of any good, but in QT Tab, there's an option under Misc. to disable the menubar.

    And how did you get the glow around the border?

  • VG

    ^^ Where is the glow which you are talking about? Its VistaVG theme in screenshot.

  • Oh well first...

    The Styler back/forward functions are messed up if you use QTTabbar.

    Now I had been wondering why there was a glow around the explorer window's caption. As far as I know, and I have used the VistaVG theme before, but the text in the title didn't have any sorta white glow around it. It was just text without the border.

    Sorry about the typo. Is there a site where I can upload screenshots for free? Thanks a lot.

  • Oh darn.

    By around the border I meant around the text.

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