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Windows Vista has more menu items than an Asian restaurant. To keep everybody's minds on computer commands instead of seaweed salad, Windows hides its menus inside the menu bar.
In fact, Vista even hides every folder's menu bar. To bring them back, press Alt, and they drop into place. To keep the menu bars permanently affixed there, follow these steps:
1. Click the Organize button and then choose Folder and Search Options from the menu that appears.
The Folder options dialog box appears, opened to the General tab.
2. In the Tasks section, select Use Windows Classic Folders.
3. Click the OK button.
The menu bar sports a different menu for each word. To reveal the secret options, click any word — Edit, for example. A menu tumbles down, as shown in Figure 1, presenting options related to editing a file.
Figure 1: Click any menu to see its associated commands.
Just as restaurants sometimes run out of specials, a window sometimes isn't capable of offering all its menu items. Any unavailable options are grayed out, like the Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, and Go To options shown in Figure 1.
 | If you accidentally click the wrong word in a menu bar, causing the wrong menu to jump down, simply click the word you really wanted. A forgiving soul, Windows retracts the mistaken menu and displays your newly chosen one. |
To back out of Menu Land completely, click the mouse pointer back down on your work in the window's workspace — the area where you're supposed to be working.
 | For the convenience of keyboard lovers, Vista underlines one letter on every menu item. (Press Alt to see them.) Mouse haters can press Alt followed by an underlined letter — the F in File, for example — to make Windows display the desired menu. (Pressing Alt, then F, and then X closes a window.) |
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