removing explorer.exe's menu bar without styler

You're hacking the right menu, and all you have to do is duplicate the "Menu Bar" menuitem as below:

264 MENUEX
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
{
POPUP "", 264, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED, 0
{
MENUITEM "&Menu Bar", 41482, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "&Standard Buttons", 41476, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "&Address Bar", 41477, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM " ", 41478, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "", 41480, MFT_SEPARATOR, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "Lock the Tool&bars", 41484, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "Auto-&Hide", 41481, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "&Customize...", 41501, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "&Text Labels", 41479, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "&Go Button", 41483, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
MENUITEM "Hide Menu Bar", 41482, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED
}
}


See the Menuitem titled "Hide Menu Bar" ? That's nothing more than the original, "Menu Bar" menuitem, which is the first menuitem listed.

You can use the above code for your menu simply by cutting all original text from your #264, and replacing it with mine. A simple copy and paste should do the trick, compile, save, replace, done :)

Things to note:

I'm running XP Home Edition, OEM, SP2. This hack DOES work on my system, however, it's not permanent. In other words, when I open explorer/IE6, and right click the toolbar, select "Hide Menu Bar", well, sure enough, the bar goes away, but, if I close explorer/ie6, when I reopen either one, the bar is back. You have to cut it off everytime.

This was as close as I could ever get this hack to actually work, and it's a great tool for screenshots, etc...

Also, there is a registry hack available from the Neowin forums, which you can find just by searching "remove menu bar", etc...

You can download pre-made registry files which when added to the registry, will make your bar go away, and it is a permanent hack. However, I've tried it, it does work, but caused a few problems in both IE and Explorer. It gave me some gaps that I didn't want, nor could get rid of, etc... and just didn't seem to "stable" of a hack, so, either way, it can be done, but the reshack way is a bit more harmless.

Not to mention, I've often thought it was kind of neat that you could turn the bar on and off with the Reshack way. Should have been a built in feature if you ask me :)

Anyway, hope this works for you, and if you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

That's exactly what I have listed in browselc.dll menu #264.

If it's not permanent but undoable, I'll just stick with Styler. It's mem usage isn't that bad. and having to disable the menubar everytime I open explorer isn't worth the 2.5MB of RAM it's using. (as I actually prefer the way this looks for normal browsing anyway, rather than just screenshots.)

Thank you for the help, WinT. I didn't expect you to be the one to reply, but I couldn't have asked for a more helpful reply.

i've been using this for years :

styler toolbar only reg hack
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=37493

it will hide menu bar and show only styler toolbar
without running styler.

well, if you just want to hide the menu bar
try making a blank styler toolbar to do that :P