The Navigation bar includes features for navigating among Web pages, searching the Web using a selection of search tools, viewing a History of visited pages, printing, and accessing email and newsgroups. The Menu bar contains menu items that open up dropdown lists for related options. Among the items are options for printing, customizing Internet Explorer, copying and pasting text, managing Favorites, and accessing Help. The command bar contains accessing and managing Favorites, feeds and the shortcuts to home page, feeds etc. Full screen mode will disable these three bars and Internet Explorer will appear in full screen mode. The shortcuts to these bars will also not work.
If you enable this policy setting, the navigation bar, command bar and menu bar will not be visible and the user will not be able to access them.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the user will be able to view and access the navigation bar, command bar and menu bar.
| Registry Hive | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
| Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main |
| Value Name | AlwaysShowMenus |
| Value Type | REG_DWORD |
| Enabled Value | 0 |
| Disabled Value | 0 |
| Registry Path | Value Name | Value Type | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbars\Restrictions | NoNavBar | REG_DWORD | 1 |
| Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbars\Restrictions | NoCommandBar | REG_DWORD | 1 |