How to restore menu bar in Windows 8 Explorer?

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There's a program called OldNewExplorer. It makes Windows 8's explorer like Windows 7's. Now I feel much better.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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  • Mahmood Dehghan
    Mahmood Dehghan over 1 year

    Is there any way to have the old traditional menu bar in Windows 8 Explorer (like in Windows 7)? I'm not comfortable with Explorer's ribbon bar at all, especially its shortcuts.

    My favorite way for creating a text file was to press Alt+F, W, T. I also used Alt+T, O to bring up the Folder Options dialog, but I can't use them anymore.

    I have tried ClassicShell but it has no menu bar. Any other options?

  • Mahmood Dehghan
    Mahmood Dehghan almost 11 years
    I don't care about disabling or enabling the ribbon. The ribbon obviously is not designed for keyboard access. I want to use keyboard to do some tasks. This is hard with the ribbon. For now I just go with alternatives like XYPlorer or Explore++.
  • DarrenMB
    DarrenMB over 9 years
    This doesn't work for the file explorer. but for some reason if you go into control panel it shows the menu still. so it is there.