How Do I Get Rid Of The Contracting Menu's?

[Storm]

windows has this nice (read: really annoying) feature to not show the menu options you often dont use. itll only show them after clicking on the expansion arrow

i know there is a way to turn this option off, but how?

[ObiWan]

Are you talking about the start menu

if so right-click the taskbar and select properties
select the start menu tab then customize
then deselect Use Personalized Menus and click ok

[Storm]

yeah those to, but that doesnt stop office XP from doing it :S

[ObiWan]

For Office open go to Tools -> customize then select the options tab then select Always show full menus (not to sure whether it changes for all office programs or just the one being changed)