Vista: Display Classic Menus in Explorer and Folders and Keep Them Displayed

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Vista is trying to dumb everything down. Instead of text, now there are little icons for everything. For anybody who can actually read, text is more informative than an icon. Here is how to enable the classic menu styles in folders and explorer.


To temporarily turn on the classic menus:

    Just select the Layout button (which is to the left of the Views button) as shown below.
    Then click on the Classic Menus selection.

    Just pressing the ALT key will make the classic menu for that window appear as well.

To Always Display Classic Menus:

    1. Click the Layout button (as shown above)
    2. Click Folder Options
    3. Select the View tab
    4. Check Always Show Classic Menus
 

2 Comments -


  1. none said on October 30, 2009

    They couldn’t leave Windows Explorer alone. Its bad enough having to fix it in XP after installing it, Vista however is such a clusterfuck there is NO FIXING IT. They should have stuck with screwing up IE and left WinExp alone. I can install another browser, I cant install another file browser. People with tech know how use it and now they have dumbed it down so much that its virtually unusable and inconsistant.

  2. User said on July 7, 2011

    And what if the layout button is not there?

 

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