Where is the File Menu ?

Mukul Gupta,  Saturday, August 5th, 2006

This puzzles me!

With a lot of excitement I downloaded both IE 7 BETA and Windows Media Player 11. For all I know, Microsoft is very good at usability i.e. they make sure the interface is really very easy to use.

To my surprise both in Media player and IE 7, the file menu is not visible by default. Why will microsoft do that? Seems like I am missing something here or they are?

IE 7 BETA & Media Player 11 Screenshots

Media Player 11

IE Menu

 

Filed under: Reviews,Usability 3 Comments

3 Comments

Rahul

May be reason of not giving file menu in these versions is to create some type of sensation. The example is as simple, it made u write this blog. And after reading that blog, i try to get answer within my head. I’d probably find a reason which would depict that MS is genius. U knw that might not be the reason.

Amit Sachan

I am also facing the same problem with my IE7. I am so pissed off.

Anshoo Arora

1. Press the “ALT” key and you’ll see the menu

2. Go to “View” in the Menu Bar -> Toolbars -> Menu Bar

Doing Step#2 will enable you to permanently display the Menu Bar. Hope that helps.

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