Disable personalized menus

Recent Microsoft applications and operating systems employ a highly annoying feature called “Personalized Menus”.  If a menu item is not used it will disappear from the menu.  The menu will then contain a little arrow that you have to click on to enable full menus.  Here is how to turn off this feature in various settings.

To disable menu item hiding in the Start Menu, go to Start -> Settings -> Taskbar & Start Menu… and turn off “Use Personalized Menus”.

To disable Favorites menu item hiding in Internet Explorer, go to Tools -> Internet Options… -> Advanced and turn off “Enable Personalized Favorites Menu” under “Browsing”.

To disable menu item hiding in Microsoft Office applications, go to Tools -> Customize… -> Options and turn off “Menus show recently used commands first”.

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