Show Text In Windows 7/Vista Explorer Titlebar

6th December 2010 - Customization, Downloads, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista

AeroBar

AeroBar is a free portable tool that allows you to show the titlebar text in Windows 7 and Vista. Normally, all the other apps have the titlebar text but Windows Explorer doesn’t. This app solves the problem.

How to use:

Just run the tool and it will show the titlebar text. Run it again and it will remove it.

Download Link (149 KB)

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  • Drm286

    Show Text In Windows 7/Vista Explorer Titlebar – Is there a way to make this a permanent change without having to run the exe after a reboot?

  • http://www.door2windows.com/ Kishan Bagaria

    Add the exe to the Startup folder.

  • Drm286

    Ok, thanks! I was hoping there would be a way to do it in regedit.

  • K-Dub

    add it to one of the registry keys that automatically start, such as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrent VersionRun

  • Lincoln Day

    You can also rename the .exe to AeroBarIco.exe (adding the ico part) to also show the icon for the folders as well.

  • http://www.greggdeselms.com/ Gregg L. DesElms

    An executable should never be added to the Startup folder.  The proper/safe way to do it is to give AeroBar its own folder in the Program Files folder; then put the AeroBar executable in it.  Then make a shortcut therein to the executable (and just rename it “AeroBar” rather than having the “.exe” and “-shortcut” still in its name).  Then copy the shortcut into the Startup folder.

  • http://www.greggdeselms.com/ Gregg L. DesElms

    Yes, I was VERY surprised that this was not included in the main article.  When the original version of this utility was released, the ability to rename it to “AeroBarIco.exe”, so that the icon appeared also, was very clear in its admittedly limited documentation.  And it’s difficult to imagine using the tool in any other way, frankly.  After all, it’s salient purpose is to restore to Vista and Win7 the title bar as it appeared in all former versions of Windows…

    …and in all those former versions, the icon was ALWAYS present.  Had I developed this tool, I’d have made the icon’s presence the default; and then I would have made it so that renaming it to “AeroBarNoIco.exe” would be the alternative to remove the icon.

    But, hey, that’s just me.

  • twodayslate

    Able to center the text?