how do I set windows 11 file explorer to show the menu bar?

We all want menus on the File Explorer. That is why we no longer have them. Microsoft has consistency in one area only, and that is in making pointless revisions of Windows that make it less functional for an ordinary intelligent user. Windows 11 is designed to make navigation and storing basic info as to location of most used files and access to the software we want to use impossible so that it will be more like a handheld mobile phone with extremely limited usefulness. The contempt with which Microsoft treats the users/ public is phenomenal. Yet each year they find new ways to express it and to pare down and eliminate all the accustomed features that make an operating system usable. It is staggering; the performance of this endless quest for user frustration and to induce hatred of Microsoft is more intrepid and inexorable than any company you can think of in history. Pure contempt.

I understand that the "Always View Menus" option has disappeared from Folder Options.

That fact is why I posted my question in the first place.

Repeating my question back to me phrased as an answer is not helpful.

What I want to know is HOW DO I GET MY MENUS BACK?

I'M OLD AND MY VISION SUCKS AND I NEED TO SEE MENUS! NOT JUST ICONS THAT I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WITHOUT MENUS!

I'VE BEEN USING MENUS SINCE WINDOWS 3.0 AND I WANT THEM BACK! NOW! GLOBALLY! BY DEFAULT! Thank you for your time and attention.

It would be so inconceivably moronic for Microsoft to delete from Windows (in the Win10-to-11 transition) one of the most basic and useful and popular features from the Folder Options screen that has been a part of Windows for decades.

Not to mention it costs ZERO to leave the feature in the product and almost definitely NOT ZERO to take it out.

Could the decision makers at a company as successful as MS possibly be so stupid as to actually let this happen?

I think we agree that MS is losing their ****. First they tried to make a Windows phone to compete with Android and iPhone, and fell flat on their faces with that (I was managing a VZW reseller's store at the time and it was the laughingstock of the cellular biz that year). Then they tried to shoehorn Bing into every Windows user's daily routine, and look how that turned out. So now they've rolled out another questionable "upgrade" to Windows that, like many upgrades before it, has fallen flat on its face too!

But now they face a bigger problem; There are enough users of alternative operating systems that between the glitches and dropped features we're seeing with Win11 they risk losing massive amounts of market share that, once lost, they may never get back. Google's Chrome is a ****small-screen web browser, but when combined with the Chrome OS it becomes at least as usable as Win11/Bing. And don't even get me started on Apple.

Are you watching and listening, Microsoft? You better get off your asses and start listening to your remaining loyal users, because what you lose this time you may never get back!

This does not work, can microsoft stop changing **** and making windows suck. You can't change things if it's you work computer, I hate the icons I like text like it have been for 30 years.

Or maybe just stop removing useful features? Especially when to fix these things it requires making alterations that not every user can make. I've just checked my registry editor and the key is not there. I could add it and it might work, but given Microsoft's record for removing fixes for problems it'll probably stop working again.