What is the name of the toolbar under the menu bar?

And can it be disabled?

It was introduced in Vista... has buttons like Organize, Burn, New Folder (new to 7 I think).

It's pointless... I use none of those buttons. Can I remove it?

it's not new to 7. This feature has been around since Windows XP

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/20690-what-name-toolbar-under-menu-bar.html

The111 said:

And can it be disabled?

It was introduced in Vista... has buttons like Organize, Burn, New Folder (new to 7 I think).

It's pointless... I use none of those buttons. Can I remove it?

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If you hide this (If possible) then you can't change the folder LOOK as in List, Large icons, small icons, contents, details, tiles, etc. :sarc:
I like changing these settings depending on what's in the folder & with that bar gone so are these settings options.

MUff1N said:

then you can't change the folder LOOK as in List, Large icons, small icons, contents, details, tiles, etc. :sarc:

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in Windows XP you can hide "common tasks" without removing the toolbar button you speak of. I think it should be the same in Windows 7 but I am not using it atm so I can't say for sure.

sup3rsprt said:

it's not new to 7. This feature has been around since Windows XP

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/20690-what-name-toolbar-under-menu-bar.html

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The bar that says Organize/Views/Share/Burn was never in XP as far as I knew, unless you had to manually turn it on. XP had, from top down:

Menubar: File, edit, view, etc.
Nav bar: Back and forward buttons, etc
Address bar

Now Vista/7 has:

Navbar / Address bar combined
Menubar: Automatically hidden but you can see it by tapping alt
New bar which is huge and obtrusive and not very useful - it's twice as thick as the damn menubar

MUff1N said:

If you hide this (If possible) then you can't change the folder LOOK as in List, Large icons, small icons, contents, details, tiles, etc. :sarc:
I like changing these settings depending on what's in the folder & with that bar gone so are these settings options.

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Some (but probably not all) of those things can be done through the (hidden) normal menubar.