In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Fri, 2 Dec 2016 09:36:33
+0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

In message , micky
writes:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Tue, 29 Nov 2016 19:04:35
+0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:
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too didn't put it there) on my 7.29.0.102 (on my W7 machine)? It shows
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Though for Skype (version as above) I _do_
have a menu bar;

Skype Preview?

No, normal Skype - version as above - on my W7 machine.

I can't see any setting in Skype (I was half expecting
to find View | Menu Bar), so I think it's something I've set up as a
generic setting in Windows.

Hmmm.

I _might_ be wrong about that. I "know" (from other people) that another
piece of software (Turnpike), that was, unfortunately, designed to look
like an (Windows) Explorer shell extension, loses its menu bar by
default when run in 7, and there's no setting _in Turnpike_ to bring it
back, but it can be brought back (in Turnpike) by changing a setting in
normal Windows Explorer. That's probably something different to your
Skype Preview. Worth having a look under View, though: I've found quite

Alas, Skype Preview has no View. The "virus" has spread that far.

a lot of software where you can get back the menu bar, it's just turned
off by default, by looking in the View menu (sometimes View | Toolbars).

No Toolbars entry either.

Of course, if you haven't _got_ a menu, you can't select View - but
Alt-V often brings it up. (In fact sometimes, the menus appear as soon
as you press the Alt key, though disappear if you let go of it.)

I should have thought of this but alas, neither it nor the two of them
did anything (except send a coded message to MS that I'm a
trouble-maker. This sort of thing is why someone called me a week ago
to say that my Windows license had been suspended.).