Hide menu bar / address bar

[shaywood]

Is there a registry hack to hide the windows explorer menu bar and the address bar (file / edit / view etc). If anyone could provide me with the reg files it would be much apprieciated.

Ideally i would like to have a reg hack that

a) removes the bar;

b) reg hack to restore it to the windows default.

Thank you in advance :)

[John Veteran]

Not the menu bar, but you can remove the Address bar by simply right clicking any of the toolbars and unchecking the Address bar (Y)

[shaywood]

Ive seen the menu bar removed, on the inspirat theme by stefanka, i just need a reg hack to restore the menu bar

[John Veteran]

It wouldn't be in the registry then. You would have to modify explorer.exe, and I don't suggest that (N)

[shaywood]

Ive found the reg hack to remove the menu bar, but i cant find one to restore it

[couture]

just right click and show addressbar to reshow it...

and yes i really mean just right click and check show address bar all of the file/edit/etc menu will come back, i have this registry hack on my computer right now.

there are a lot of topics on this just search ;)

[shaywood]

I found that out mate, im more concerned with restoring the menu bar.

[couture]

i edited my post, the menu bar will come back when you recheck show the addressbar....

[shaywood]

Nice, thanks for that. I did a search just couldnt find any information on the topic. Maybe i wasnt looking hard enough :) my bad

[+dave164 Subscriber¹]

is this working.. i dont want to add it without knowing it works

[shaywood]

it does my friend, give it a whirl :)

[zedaxax]

Ive found the reg hack to remove the menu bar, but i cant find one to restore it

If Shaywoods .reg works its easy (havent tried it- i like the menu bar(but minimal)

To restore it easy once you have the .reg tweak for it

Before you use his .reg simply back up \ export the line it is changing

open Shaywoods .reg with notepad

find the locations where it changes things in the registry

which are:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\Explorer]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\ShellBrowser]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser]

hence

simply Export this line

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar]

Then run his anti menu tweak

so if you want it back to default simply merge the "default" exported.reg file.

[particleWave]

Thanks Shaywood, you have made me very happy!

My desktop looks beautiful now.

[Raum]

hgvj

HideMenubar.zip