Windows 10 Explorer menu bar missing

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I am using Windows 10 Pro, Version 10.0.14393 (according to winver), the 32 bit edition. Today I was scanning some documents using Windows Fax and Scanner. all went well until I wasn’t looking and somehow or other ended up killing the normal menu lint in Windows Explorer and now have only the quick lint at the top. It shows the following groups: clipboard, organising, open and select (not sure if my translations into English are entirely correct). But the usual Menu lint with Start-Insert etc seems to be gone. From the File menu I have already tried Map and Search options, Always show menu’s, but that does not help. How do I restore the normal lint?
I use Windows Explorer extensively, this is a real problem for me.
Thanks in advance for any help given.

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To expand the ribbon, click the small down-arrow next to the “?” help icon at top-right. Or press Ctrl+F1.

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To expand the ribbon, click the small down-arrow next to the “?” help icon at top-right. Or press Ctrl+F1.

Thank you for your prompt reply. Pressing the small Arrow only hides the lint which is there. This lint contains 3 groups, Location, Network and System. I am looking for the lint that shows all of the normal functions used regularly. Does this explain my problem more clearly?

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Location, Network and System are shown under Computer on the ribbon when you have This PC selected. If you select a folder or file, the main Home section of the ribbon should be automatically redisplayed.

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Location, Network and System are shown under Computer on the ribbon when you have This PC selected. If you select a folder or file, the main Home section of the ribbon should be automatically redisplayed.

I wish! When I open a folder or file, I still see only the ribbon for Clipbord, Organisation, New, Open, Select. How do I get to the main Home section of the ribbon? If I go to the ribbon for the screen I still do not see any way to get this back. Under the File menu there used to be a menu called Options, and from there I could modify the ribbon. But now that too is gone.

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Try positioning the mouse cursor on the ribbon and the roll the mouse wheel up and down. The Options Menu can also be accessed via Control Panel > File Explorer Options >

Jerry

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Thanks, I tried this but it does not do what I need to have done. If I use the scroll on my mouse, I can see two different lints. One shows the clipboard-organisation-new-open-select and the other only has send and share groups. The options menu that I can get to is not the one that will allow me to edit the lint. It’s almost as if I have somehow deleted certain groups from the lint, including the group that I need in order to edit the lint.

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One shows the clipboard-organisation-new-open-select

That is the main Home tab, so I don’t understand what you can’t access.

Get to know File Explorer’s Ribbon toolbar in Windows 10
Get to know File Explorer’s Contextual tabs in Windows 10

It’s almost as if I have somehow deleted certain groups from the lint, including the group that I need in order to edit the lint.

It’s not possible to edit the ribbon.

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That is the main Home tab, so I don’t understand what you can’t access.

Get to know File Explorer’s Ribbon toolbar in Windows 10
Get to know File Explorer’s Contextual tabs in Windows 10

It’s most embarassing, but I strongly suspect you are quite right. After my last post I went to my wife’s pc and got the same menu’s. Let’s just sat I was having a very early “senior moment”. Thnaks for your patience and help (said with a very embarassed look on my face.)

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Let’s just sat I was having a very early “senior moment”.

I get more of those every day.

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