1. press left alt and it pops up
2. in windows explorer, press left alt->tools->folder options–>view tab…under the ‘advanced settings’ the second thing down is ’show menus’ do this and then be sure to press the button above it ‘apply to all folders’ and press ok at bottom (which is the same as apply if you’re closing the window)
3. right click in the menu area, and one of the check boxes is for the menu to stay on the screen, I think this is for IE 7 in Vista, not sure but it works somewhere……

so, I like everyone else, find Vista very very annoying…I’m a system engineer so I need to know how to use it, but even with the ‘vista hp driver’ for my all in one, I can’t get my hp printer to print in Vista…have to have my XP notebook do it

During certain installs (automatic web updates), Windows automatically switches your XP firewall setting to “On” regardless of previous setting. This means you can’t print remotely on your network, if you’re running one.

It took me 4 hours of screwing with the router, resetting the LAN, and checking connections before I figured that out.

Great user friendly feature. Microsoft products are crap.

It took me thrity seconds to find the plastic stickers on the Vista box. Slit those and the box will open like a book. Opening a CD or DVD’s cellophane wrapper is much harder unless it has a rip tab.

And don’t even get me started on Vista itself. I’ve been a Microsoft cheerleader for 17 years but I’m very annoyed at them trying to out-cool Apple. If I wanted cool over function I’d buy a Mac.

Grrrrr.

“File” is a lousy title for that menu and it’s only there as a legacy. I mean what does “exit” have to do with “file”? And “print”?
Well, you are exiting or printing the file. A lot more logical grouping than I’ve seen in other programs. One Windows program, which wasn’t even a draughting package, made you go to “Edit -> Plot” to print.

Microsoft can uniquely get away with doing things like this because, since it also develops the operating system upon which the apps run, it can use undocumented features of the system to do things that other developers can’t do – certainly can’t do without risking their applications breaking the next time MS does an update.

However, MS isn’t the only one. Apple has also made a habit of unveiling new, cooler looks for its own apps at the cost of consistency with others – iTunes being the biggest offender.

Ha! I fixed their wagon. I close my eyes and pick a random number between 1 and 10 when I order. Take that Corporate Amerika!