How to Restore the menus we are now so used to.

You may have noticed that Vista's own windows and many new applications lack the familiar File, Edit, and View menus. Most of us have got so used to them after all these years that we would now want to enable them again. You can enable them through each application—if they're included at all. But to turn them on in Vista proper here is what you will have to do.

Step 1: Open any window (such as Computer, or Documents), click Organize, and click Folder and Search Options.

Step 2: Select the View tab and fill in the check box next to Always Show Menus.

Step 3: Click Apply and then OK.

Also alternatively, to show the menus temporarily, just hit the Alt key with any given window in the foreground