How to Hide or Unhide File Explorer Menu bar in Windows 11

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The post provides guidance for students and new users on how to constantly display the File Explorer menu bar in Windows 11. It explains that there are new features, such as a tab browsing feature, available to Microsoft Insider Program members. The article provides explicit steps to display the menu bar in File Explorer.

This post shows students and new users steps always to show the File Explorer menu bar in Windows 11.

Computers enrolled in Microsoft Insider Program will see new features that are not yet available. For example, file Explorer includes a new tab browsing feature that helps users work with multiple locations simultaneously.

Another feature recently introduced is the menu bar previously found in previous versions of Windows. Of course, you can always have the menu bar in File Explorer if you want.

The menu bar includes FileEditView, and Tools. These menu items will vary depending on what is open and selected in File Explorer.

The steps below show you how always to show the menu bar in File Explorer in Windows 11.

How to always show the menu bar in File Explorer in Windows 11

As mentioned above, File Explorer in Windows 11 now has the old-style menu bar that varies based on what is open or selected.

Below is how to always show the menu bar in File Explorer.

To do that, open File Explorer and select Options (ellipse or 3-dots) on the menu.

On the Folder Options window, under the View tab, select or unselect Always show menus and click OK to hide or unhide the menu bar in Windows 11.

Once you do that, you should see a menu bar similar to the one below.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to hide or unhide the menu bar in File Explorer in Windows 11. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to share.

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4 responses to “How to Hide or Unhide File Explorer Menu bar in Windows 11”

  1. Suzanne Lyon Avatar
    Suzanne Lyon

    This didn’t work at all. The “Always show menus” option doesn’t exist in my version of Windows 11.

    1. Jeffrey Stone Avatar
      Jeffrey Stone

      Same here…..Did you find an answer?

  2. Internet Man Avatar
    Internet Man

    Procedure doesn’t work as of July2023 in Win11 v21H2. The “always show menus” option exists, but doesn’t show the menu bar in File Explorer.

  3. Frustrated Avatar
    Frustrated

    Microsoft keeps removing useful features. Bad dog!

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