How to Set Windows 7 Menus to Open to the Left or Right Side
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This will show you how to set all menus (ex: context menu, Menu bar, etc...) in Windows 7 to open to the left or right side of where you click at.
Warning
If the menu does not have enough room to fully open at the border of the window or display screen, it will compensate and open from the opposite direction of the border instead. This will override whatever side you have the menu set to open on below.
EXAMPLE: Right-handed NOTE:Menus open to the left of your hand.
EXAMPLE: Left-handed NOTE:Menus open to the right of your hand.
OPTION ONE
Using a REG File Download
1. To Have Menus Open to the Left
A) Click on the Download button below to download the file below.
Menus_Open_To_Left.reg
B) Go to step 3.
2. To Have Menus Open to the Right
A) Click on the Download button below to download the file below.
Menus_Open_To_Right.reg
3.Save the .reg file to the desktop.
4. Right click on the downloaded .reg file and click on Merge.
5. Click on Run, Yes, Yes, and OK when prompted.
6. Log off and log on, or restart the computer to apply.
7. When done, you can delete the downloaded .reg file on the desktop if you like.
OPTION TWO
Manually in Registry Editor
1. Open the Start Menu, then type regedit in the search line and press enter.
A) In the right pane of Windows, right click on a empty space and click on New and String Value. Type MenuDropAlignment and press enter. (see screenshot below) NOTE:If you already have MenuDropAlignment, then skip this step and go to step 4B instead.
B) In the right pane, right click on MenuDropAlignment and click on Modify. (see screenshot above)
C) Type 1 and click on OK. (see screenshot below)
D) Go to step 6.
5. To Have Menus Open to the Right
A) In the right pane of Windows, right click on MenuDropAlignment and click on Delete and Yes. (see screenshot below step 4B)
OR
B) Repeat all steps in step 4, and type 0 in step 4C instead.
6. Close regedit.
7. Log off and log on, or restart the computer to apply.
I cant find the "Tablet PC Settings" folder, I'm guessing it only exists on tablet PC's, is there a way to add it to non tablet PC's? Cause I've always wanted these to show up to the left of the mouse.
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Double check in Windows Features to make sure that you have the Tablet PC Components option checked. Afterwards, it should be available in the Control Panel.
System Manufacturer/Model Number acer timeline 3810t OS Windows 7 64-bit Windows 7 32-bit CPU Intel Core 2 Solo (1.4 GHz) Memory 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM - 1066 MHz SO DIMM 204-pin Graphics Card Intel GMA 4500MHD Dynamic Video Memory Technology 5.0 Monitor(s) Displays Widescreen 13.3 in TFT active matrix
Case # Ultraportable (Under 4 lbs.) , Budget Hard Drives # 250 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 5400 rpm
Double check in Windows Features to make sure that you have the Tablet PC Components option checked. Afterwards, it should be available in the Control Panel.
Hi Shawn, i was hanging around reading a thread...and linked here.
Seems Tablet PC Components does exist on my Win 7 (it is checked on mine), and aswell the registry key: "RIGHT_HANDED
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows]
"MenuDropAlignment"="1"."
No need to create the key now, just have to set to 0 or 1....
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