Following tutorial will help you in forcing Internet Explorer to always show Menu bar:
1. Type regedit in RUN or Start menu search box and press Enter. It'll open Registry Editor.
2. Now go to following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft
3. Create a new key "Internet Explorer" under "Microsoft" key.
4. Create another new key "Main" under "Internet Explorer" key.
So the final path would be:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
5. Now in right-side pane, create a new DWORD value AlwaysShowMenus and set its value to 1
6. That's it.
NOTE: To disable Menu Bar again, you can either delete DWORD value AlwaysShowMenus or set its value to 0.
PS: If you want a ready-made registry script to do the task automatically, download following ZIP file, extract it and run the extracted REG file. It'll ask for confirmation, accept it:
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laptop
I've followed every step but is not working, still disapears... any clues?
laptop
sorted, i've closed and reopen ie9 and voila... thanks!
wildgoosespeeder
Even though I can't get IE9 on Windows XP, it's nice to know that the menu bar still exists. That was one of my fears with IE9. One other problem is Microsoft's stupid thing to put the menu bar below the navigation bar. I wonder if that menu-on-top tweak for IE7/IE8 works for IE9...
I see another problem, the back and forward buttons don't have that navigation history drop-down. From what I remember, IE6-IE8 had that, why remove it? :(
BR
@wildgoosespeeder :
The didnt remove the navigation history. All you have to do is click the arrow icon and hold the mouse button on it for a while and the drop-down menu appears, ok.
palla ramarao
Very good tip to have the menu bar by default. But as @wildgoosespeeder mentioned, the navigation history drop-down was better in the earlier browsers. what i feel is IE9 has simply copied the features from chrome!
Jyotirmay Pandey
Thanks a lot. Really helpful information.
M.D. Harper
Excellent tip. I didn't know it was a bug, I thought it was a Microsoft feature.
Arnoud Wentink
Hi,
I miss one more step to change not only for 32-bit but also 64-bit.
when i maked a QWORD (64-bits) and named exaclty like the DWORD, Registry-Editor said it needs to have another name, wich i don't know.
Could you please tell me the right name?
Thnx,
VG
^^ It seems the DWORD already exists in your registry. Check it and if it exists, change its value to 1.
Jerry
Reg keys worked perfectly. Thanks.....................