How to Enable / Show Menu Bar Permanently in Microsoft Internet Explorer?

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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.

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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:

Download Registry Script

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