Windows 8 Can anyone help me to remove this toolbar?

patcooke

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Right click above it it and uncheck "menu bar."

 

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i've uncheck menu bar but it didn't disappear
any suggestion?

 

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Well the item you have ringed in red on your snapshot is the menu bar and it should not show if it is unticked.

 

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Yeah, but even if i unticked menu bar, it still show up

 

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Maybe have a look at your folder options and see if this one is ticked. If so try un-checking that one.

 

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Yes, already untick that box, but menu bar still showing

 

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Is this windows 8 or 8.1?
In my windows 8.1 Pro, windows explorer doesn't have that option to show menus and the layout is different. Yours shows "computer" in 8.1 it's "This PC".

 

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My pc using windows 8

 

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Are you running any 3rd party applications/software that makes changes to the native explorer window like..."OldNewExplorer"? If so, that could very well be your issue.

 

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Maybe because i using theme patcher
Is it possible to reinstall windows explorer?

 

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Take a look at the four (4) following registry entries and see if their values are set as indicated

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"AlwaysShowMenus"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"AlwaysShowClassicMenu"=-
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced]
"AlwaysShowMenus"=-
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"AlwaysShowClassicMenu"=-

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If they're all good then some third party software is doing it, as bassfisher6522 has already suggested.

 

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Ok
Then, you know how to identify or locate this third-party ?

 

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valdyk said:

Ok
Then, you know how to identify or locate this third-party ?

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Short Answer..... No.
I have no idea what may or may not be installed on your computer.
Troubleshooting can be a bit difficult and time consuming.
I think I would probably first start by creating an alternate user (member of the local administrators group) and see if the problem was the same with the new account.
Then I might likely boot into safe mode and see if the problem was present.
Those are the two things I would try first.

 

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